Opinion

TransLink's board doesn't need more directors drinking from the same bath water. It needs whistle-blowers and critics, transit users and truckers to put some reality into the way Lower Mainland road and transit infrastructure are funded.

FACE TO FACE: Are bike lanes a scourge on city streets or a useful investment? W hy the ongoing brouhaha over Vancouver's bike lanes? It has to be a tempest in a teapot.

FACE TO FACE: Are bike lanes a scourge on city streets or a useful investment? V ancouver's indomitable mayor is at it again.

Riverview Hospital is closing this summer. Will anyone mourn? Will anyone care? Hundreds, even thousands, of Tri-City residents used to work there, and thousands of British Columbians lived there while dealing with mental health issues.

The Editor, Re. "Saving Riverview" (Green Scene, The Tri-City News, May 4).

The Editor, Re. "Young people an inspiration to Rick Hansen" (www.tricitynews.com). My mother, daughter and I were waiting on our front lawn on Thermal Drive last Friday for Rick Hansen to come up the hill.

FACE TO FACE: Barack Obama is popular in Canada - but should he be? I n his first year in office, U.S. President Barack Obama saved the world economy from a second great depression. It took the U.S.

FACE TO FACE: Barack Obama is popular in Canada - but should he be? U .S. President Barack Obama has the sizzle but doesn't have the substance. Yes, he is an articulate and skilled orator but so was Eddie, the guy who sold me a lemon of a used car.

The Editor, Re. "Coquitlam continues trash deal" (The Tri-City News, May 4).

Y ou've seen it. Guaranteed. The sign on Lougheed Highway saying "Thank you Larry for all the wonderful years." It is just half a block east of Shaughnessy in Port Coquitlam. You've seen him. Guaranteed.