The Editor,
It is only recently that people have finally realized that we are past the early stage of traffic gridlock.
The Tri-City News reported last month on a most interesting development of the Fraser Mills property and the plan for 16 or 18 towers. Of course there is no mention of the flood plane, school location or a traffic study.
There is a colour picture available on the newspaper’s website indicating the only access and egress is one road heading north to, you guessed it — out to the Lougheed Highway. Therefore, another 20,000-plus people will need to use the rail overpass if they want to head towards Vancouver.
Add this to a whole bunch of mega high rise towers on both sides of North Road all the way to New Westminster and you can not expect traffic to flow properly. Add this to our city’s failure to deal with the traffic problem at the foot of Blue Mountain Street when they approved another 28-storey high rise.
Fraser Mills will only create more traffic havoc. So the city will nurse this development on what many residents said should have been kept as light industrial zone. We will soon hear the usual excuses we all have heard before. One is that the city did not hear from the public in any numbers so it must be all right to proceed.
On a positive note, we understand it will take years to see this project completed. Perhaps by then we will see flying cars and groceries delivered by drones.
Brian Robinson
Coquitlam
