Letters: Jan. 26, 2010
Bumpy road ahead?
Editor,
Recent Trans Canada highway improvements extend from Chilliwack to Whistler.
Have the municipalities along the way been asked to share the costs? Don’t they all benefit from the improvements?
Through their own lack of vision, the Ministry of Highways created this mess and now they are asking for the District of North Vancouver to help pay for improvements.
Is the City of North Vancouver being asked to share the cost of the highway upgrades at the second narrows exchange?
The proposed on and off-ramps off of Brooksbank Avenue would supposedly benefit that municipality as well.
Is this proposal in line with the District’s Vision “to be among the most sustainable communities in the world by 2020”?
As Coun. Nixon says, “This buys us maybe ten years of relative ease of access but, beyond ten years it will be back to what it was before unless we take really hard steps on mass transit to encourage people to get out of their single occupancy vehicles.”
John Sharpe, North Vancouver
Pause for thought
Editor,
I thank you for your editorial “Pause for Thought” (Outook, Jan. 20) in which you describe “the sombre situation” in Haiti following as well as preceding the earthquake, but I am writing to say I wondered about your last sentence. You said we have plenty of reasons “to pause and be grateful for what we have in Canada.”
Yes indeed most Canadians are highly privileged and for this we certainly need to be grateful. Yet beyond that we feel the excruciating pain of the homeless and often helpless and hopeless people. We are all members of the same human family and want to reach out to assist those in need.
It is encouraging that many are trying to help. For example I read that Carson Graham students in the school’s Global Initiative group are preparing to go on a spring break humanitarian trip to the Dominican Republic to help Haitian refugees.
Are there ways by which Canadians might be encouraged to offer their help? Could specific avenues of assistance be listed for the benefit of those who wish to express their deep concern in tangible ways?
Dermott McInnes, North Vancouver
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