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Port Moody, Coquitlam & Burnaby should team up on Burquitlam library

The Editor, Re. "Library before park project" (The Tri-City News, July 27). As a resident of the west side of Port Moody, the nearest public library to my home is Burnaby Public Library's Cameron Street branch, near Lougheed Town Centre.

The Editor,

Re. "Library before park project" (The Tri-City News, July 27).

As a resident of the west side of Port Moody, the nearest public library to my home is Burnaby Public Library's Cameron Street branch, near Lougheed Town Centre.

Highrise residential development near the Lougheed SkyTrain station has mushroomed usage of the tiny Cameron library and the construction of the Evergreen Line, with a station at Burquitlam, is already attracting high-density residential development in the vicinity.

The nearest public library in Coquitlam is the distant Poirier branch.

Thus, there is a rapidly growing need for a new, large library in the Burquitlam-Lougheed Town Centre area.

Rather than the city of Port Moody replacing its not-so-old library at city hall, perhaps the cities of Coquitlam, Burnaby and Port Moody could build and staff a regional library in the Burquitlam area?

D. B. Wilson, Port Moody