Dear Editor,
Born and raised in New West, now I am a taxpayer it is time to call this city council on the carpet. I need the city to explain to me why they are spending $7 million of taxpayers’ money to tear down a perfectly good parkade, that was built with taxpayers’ dollars.
This council, and those in the past, seem to think they have carte blanche to spend the taxpayers’ money. Forget the promises made to developers in the past, do something no other council has done and think about the taxpayer. The ramp was built to help the business on Columbia, downtown. To compete against the malls being built in the ’60s, take away that parking does not make any sense. Unsightly, ugly, blocks of view, but whose standards. With less parking where are all the extra vehicles from new highrises being built gonna park, everyone is going to squeeze two vehicles into the one or two spaces provided, not likely.
Those opposed at the last council meeting had all those questions left unanswered. Where is the accountability of the council?
Jim and Susan Pearson, New Westminster
