Dear Editor:
Re: Trucks are causing bridge troubles, Inbox, New Westminster Record, Feb. 11. Every time a big truck straddles the lanes when crossing the Pattullo, I silently cheer. Yes, the truck is blocking both lanes, but (at least every time I have observed them) it is traveling at (or at most only slightly over) the speed limit.
So instead of impeding the flow of traffic, the lane-straddling truck is acting like a pace car, ensuring that the real menaces of the bridge, the recklessly passing and speeding drivers, actually have to drive safely.
Rather than criticize the truckers, I applaud them for making the bridge safer. Which is why I suspect the police (both RCMP and New Westminster Police Department) are in no hurry to do anything about this.
Ed Sadowski, New Westminster
