Dear Editor:
I thank you for your coverage of the bus loop controversy. I attended the recent council chamber hearing on the Brentwood redevelopment.
Mayor Derek Corrigan led the charge. And to no one's surprise - as usually happens when Mayor Corrigan leads the charge - the result looks to be a potential disaster.
Will we really see physically handicapped people, mothers pushing baby strollers, people carrying packages, and mobility-challenged senior transit riders forced to use two flights of stairs and cross six lanes of traffic on the Lougheed Highway or on Willingdon Avenue to make their bus connections?
And how about already-stressed drivers going to and from work in Vancouver? Will they "pile up" through multiple traffic light cycles at Willingdon and Lougheed?
In the same article we are told that B.C. Transit is supposedly doing what they are told to do.
This "yes sir" philosophy does not cut the cake with me. After all, management are getting paid well to provide good safe transit services.
And surely the B.C. Transit board - including Mayor Corrigan - must review any permanent changes to the Brentwood bus loop and ramp infrastructure.
There are two rays of hope on the side of the transit riders. Citizen activist Helen Ward has championed the issue and is taking council properly to task for this obvious failure of civic planning.
And then there is Coun. Sav Dhaliwal, who objected to the bus loop changes in council's transportation committee meetings.
He also saw the obvious problems posed for many transit users. And he was no longer willing to be a "yes man."
Maybe Coun. Dhaliwal now finds himself with the wrong municipal party and should be looking elsewhere to run in the next election.
Nick Kvenich, Burnaby
