Editor:
Re: Frustrated Burnaby Mountain residents take to policing Trans Mountain traffic, NOW News
Reading the recent article, I would like to add my comments with the heavy truck and trailers destroying the roadside along Broadway between Lake City/Arden and Underhill.
Every morning, the trucks are using Broadway as a staging area, with a controller in a pickup truck directing the trucks up the hill on Underhill.
The roadside gravel has turned into a rutted, muddy mess and as each truck re-enters back onto Broadway, they're tracking all that mud onto the road surface, which is then splashed on every other vehicle using this route. (So much for trying to keep your vehicle clean.)
Also, I find it annoying as you travel along past this long line of trucks, some use their flashers where most do not. I am cautious and wonder if that one truck in the line is about to pull out back onto the paved roadway out of turn with only the left-side flasher (turn signal) being visible.
Finally, I am concerned that when the heavy trucks have finished destroying the roads, will we the taxpayers in the City of Burnaby be responsible for the roadside repair? Something our city management should follow up on.
Don Anderson, Burnaby
