RE: City of North Van tweaks controversial St. Andrews Avenue changes
Dear Editor,
I’m extremely confused at how anyone could think that widening St. Andrews Avenue would make it safer?
The speed limit is 30 kilometre per hour. Is the city’s goal not to have drivers go 30 km/h? Why, then, are we making it easier to speed?
Honestly, if every time the city tries to make a neighbourhood safer they’re then going to back down when a few residents get angry, then what’s the point!? If the status quo is acceptable, then the CNV is no better then the DNV.
The city completed the Green Necklace eight years ago, they re-built Esplanade only after a fatality; what else have they really done? At this pace, maybe my grandchildren will be able to move around this city car-free and feel safe doing it.
A great solution to reducing vehicle speeds is introducing automated enforcement, but our RCMP are too afraid of losing their jobs that the city can’t do it. So the only tool we have is changing infrastructure.
St. Andrews was the last major item that came to the city's Integrated Transportation Committee while I was chairing it. I’m ashamed at how this city has handled the whole process and it’s embarrassing to see how this debacle has unfolded.
Brent Hillier
North Vancouver
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