Dear Editor:
Some like the Anvil name, it reminds them of the loud bang/noise and puff of smoke/pollution at Queen's Park every May.
Although it is, some would say, an appropriate name for the anti-historic, anti-heritage, formally known as the Royal City Civic Centre, with the too-noisy SkyTrain next door, the loud roaring diesel trucks across the street, and the screeching big diesel trains nearby.
A very family unfriendly and environmentally unfriendly location, with lots of black rubber tire dust and diesel engine particulate, a known cancer causing agent for people and pets, especially those with allergies and respiratory health problems. But not to worry as the city will probably have to sell the inappropriately named Anvil Centre to some organization which will probably quickly change the name of the building.
City hall, the councillors and the mayor led by the smell of the warm Big Developer and Big Union Cheese has, at the expense of most of the other taxpayers, built too many too-tall apartment buildings to attract many new unsuspecting residents to "eat up," like hungry Pac Man, all the air pollution.
Soon the Anvil Centre will be completed and the total cost will probably be more than $100 million. So, if sold, the New Westminster taxpayers will probably have "to eat" "$10 million or $20 million or $30 million.
So city hall will surely achieve their obvious hidden objective of making New Westminster number 1 (now only number 2) with the highest business and residential municipal taxes in the country. Well deserving of the proposed new city name "Fiasco Ville."
Have a happy, productive, prosperous New Year - you'll need it to be able to afford to pay the too-high municipal taxes in New Westminster next year.
Allan Solie, New Westminster
