Editor:
Has anyone noticed the state of disrepair on the streets of New Westminster? Drive down Carnarvon Street from 6th Street to 10th Street and you are in for a very bumpy ride.
The street is a disaster.
The city has been busily putting in these extended curbs at crosswalks and intersections (around the city) and making it almost impossible to turn the corner without going into the oncoming lane or up on the curb.
Not to mention the cost, plus loss of parking and turn lanes. It does not make sense to spend money on these senseless extensions to the sidewalks when the streets in the city are in such need of repair.
It seems to me that the city digs up the streets and then does a lousy job of patching them up and never getting around to repaving them properly. The city did do some paving on Third Avenue from 8th Street to 10th Street a couple months ago - only to do it up again in three spots two weeks later. What the heck is going on?
Is this why our taxes keep going up?
Forget the bike lanes and extended curbs and fix the roads.
D. Brunn, New Westminster
