Editor:
Re: Frustrated Burnaby Mountain residents take to policing Trans Mountain traffic, NOW News
I live on Ashgrove (Ash Grove) Crescent, and have done so for 34 years. It used to be a quiet and tranquil neighbourhood.
Now, since expansion of the tank farm at the Burnaby terminal, I find the area extremely busy and noisy. The trucks going in and out, sometimes in convoys, block many of the surrounding streets, and the truck drivers oftentimes drive over the lane dividing line, going over into the oncoming lane.
As they also drive very slowly, especially up and down the hills, they also cause traffic delays, and major inconveniences. The affected roads, which I always use to get off the lower mountain, are clogged. There is no other alternative to leave or return to my residence.
I am talking about Underhill Avenue, Shellmont, Production Way and Broadway, plus the intersections of Forest Grove Drive and Underhill, Underhill and Broadway, Forest Grove and Broadway, Production Way and Eastlake, Production Way and Broadway and Broadway and Gaglardi.
This is a ridiculous situation that you are putting us through, and it is entirely unnecessary.
I did not buy a place to live my retirement years in hell. Why not think of alternative access to the terminal? Get permission from City of Burnaby, and build a new road through your property so that it would not impact our neighbourhood? I suppose, being aligned with the government doesn't permit creativity or concern from your company.
Kay Inglis, Burnaby
