Reasons to stop perimeter road project
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Updated: October 06, 2009 12:39 PM
I have to say Guy Gentner is right on the money in calling for a stop to the South Fraser Perimeter Road.
First of all, many people opposed this project from the start, including environmental experts, urban planners and thousands of Delta residents who did not appreciate our community being again used as doormat.
Some way believe that all development is good development, and that everything needs to make way for the speedy transportation of coal to Asia. Even so, it still seems a good time to re-evaluate the enormous public expense of this particular mega-project.
The billion dollars we’re spending on this freeway (which a lot of us don’t want) would buy a lot of things everybody does want. $1 billion would buy a lot of school books, hospital beds, sports programs, or help for seniors. $1 billion would in fact go a long way to solving problems the government says it can’t do a thing about.
And the beauty of it is that the Liberal government could shelve its pet project without losing face. After all, as we keep being told, the ferocity of the economic downturn was unpredictable, so it should be appropriate for the government to readjust priorities in light of a new situation.
Mr. Gentner’s idea looks like great common sense. Think it will happen?
Patrick Truelove
Delta
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