Dear Editor:
There is a lot of chatter about how to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on bridges and roads. Not once have I heard what seems to be the most common sense solution.
Rather than TransLink focusing on how to build more and wider roads and bridges, how about a plan to get people to work where they live so there is minimal need and desire to cross bridges?
There should a master plan for the next 50 years to not only get people out of their cars, but drastically reduce commute distances.
Make crossing water more difficult, not easier. Write zoning based on a balance of population and employment. Make it expensive to drive more than five kilometers to work. That will reduce fuel consumption, reduce pollution and free up commuting time to spend more time with our families.
And we would not be spending hundreds of millions to build bigger roads and bridges - infrastructure would all last longer due to reduced use.
Larry Hill, New Westminster
