Eric Foster has not served Vernon as well as he should have regarding the Stickle Road $10-plus million diversion of heavy traffic through our residential areas, and rushing traffic into the north end of Vernon, clogging the first controlled intersections with traffic unnecessarily and pushing a new road through an environmentally sensitive area.
There are better solutions which are internationally proven, and ignored by our illustrious traffic engineers who sign an 80-kilometre-per-hour speed limit about 100 metres before a traffic light at 48th Avenue on Highway 97 north — a mindless situation of which they expressed surprise when brought to their attention over a year ago, but still have not corrected.
A traffic roundabout is possible and the best way to calm traffic without stopping it at Stickle Road. There is room for such a solution, which need not be elaborate and is much more cost effective.
Many people in this riding are planning to vote Green or otherwise, but not Liberal, as usual.
C. Wills
Vernon