The Editor,
Re. “Road alternatives inadequate” (Letters, The Tri-City News, Sept. 7).
I have always thought that the proposed westward extension of David Avenue was a roundabout way to serve population growth in Sunnyside and Ioco.
The existing Ioco Road offers little opportunity to accommodate traffic growth.
But the redevelopment of the Ioco property will make the CP Rail industrial spur redundant. Why not redevelop this 15-metre-wide rail right-of-way into a new, two-lane Shoreline Road with bike lane?
The existing Ioco Road would be designated one-way westbound. The new Shoreline Road would be signed one-way eastbound. (Note: The two parts of the couplet would merge in the vicinity of Noons Creek, to become the four-lane west leg of the Heritage Mountain intersection.)
This one-way couplet concept would provide more capacity with safety and postpone the need to push David Avenue through Bert Flinn Park.
D.B. Wilson, Port Moody
