Dear Editor:
Something has to be done about the danger to pedestrians in Metrotown. There is little respect for pedestrians in marked crosswalks; cars are not yielding to pedestrians. They are not yielding even when the pedestrian-controlled lights indicate pedestrians can start walking. Drivers are turning or blowing through intersections, not on yellows, but stale red lights. Today I saw an instance of three eastbound cars that turned left from Kingsway to go north on Willingdon while the pedestrian walk light prompted people to cross; this was on the same red light for all of them. They were following two or three cars that went on the yellow – and there was a crowd of pedestrians waiting on the curb to cross, and the road was wet.
The practice by Burnaby city engineering of only turning on the red light cameras intermittently has to stop, and enforcement has to be in place full time. Somebody is going to die.
Paul McGown, Burnaby
