Dear Editor:
We are constantly told we have to pay high salaries to city staff to get the best of the best of talent. Well, what happened to the road engineering department?
In addition to painting new white bike lines extending three feet from the curb on both sides on Seventh Avenue between Fifth and Sixth streets, making passing of cars more dangerous, they also reduced the number of free two-hour parking spaces in doing so.
But back to the three-feet-from-the-curb decision by these knuckleheads.
It is just a matter of time when, say a non driver 85 years old going to the doctors office opens up their passenger door without checking (as is usual not to and quite normal in the past) and now smucks some bike rider doing 50 km/h heading east or west.
The additional fact that several businesses in the immediate area will get reduced visits and revenue is again not thought out well by the city, just to accommodate a very few bikers.
The ICBC lawyers are going to have a field day with these claims! Who signed off on this stupid idea and are more planned?
Bill Davis, New Westminster
