The Editor,
Re. “Burns Road work burns PoCo bucks” (front page, The Tri-City News, Oct. 7).
It is unbelievable that the Burns Road upgrade cost is now at $925,000. This was for putting in a water main. For almost $1 million, why wasn’t a culvert placed on either side of the road and the ditches filled in? This would have enabled a sidewalk and or a bike lane to be put in. Burns Road is still not a safe street for pedestrians or bicyclists.
City council needs to divert some of this heavy Coquitlam traffic from Coast Meridian Road. Besides Burns, Fremont Street should be opened up through to Dominion Avenue. The infrastructure in PoCo does not support what city council allows in. Just think of the daily traffic nightmare in the Costco/Home Depot area. Why wasn’t an entrance/exit made from the rear of Home Depot on the Dominion Avenue side?
Burns Road is designated to be part of the upcoming Fremont Connector to Burke Mountain. The city of Coquitlam should be made to pay part of the cost of this since it is all that city’s traffic that cuts through our city.
PoCo city council should also find out how the Coquitlam upgrades to Coast Meridian Road and David Avenue probably took less time to do than what it took PoCo to do Burns Road. It would be interesting to find out the Coquitlam costs of making Coast Meridian and David Avenue four lanes. Hey, it only took PoCo almost $1 million to do one long block.
Fay Wright, Port Coquitlam
