A Burnaby mother says she’s fed up with a City of Burnaby road project that is taking her far out of her way just to drop off family at a local daycare.
The project is along Broadway, from Bainbridge to Underhill, although part of the project up to Phillips is completed. This same project has been the subject of numerous complaints from area residents, who say it’s gone on for more than a year and is likely to extend into 2022.
N.D. shared with me a series of emails she had exchanged with the city’s project manager, with complaints about the behaviour of flagging staff who have held her up despite no work taking place.
But the real frustration comes as Broadway near the daycare will now be closed for more than three months. In an email, the city has advised her that she must approach from all the way on the east side from Lake City industrial park.
That’s at least 20 minutes for N.D. during rush-hour commuting periods.
“We are so frustrated and they are not helping at all,” N.D. said. “It’s been over a year and 3 months now and no end in sight. With all the other construction around it’s just getting horrible.”
N.D. says that she has tried the city’s suggestion to take Broadway from the east, but that hasn’t worked out.
“This morning we took your helpful advice and went all the way to Lake City,” N.D. wrote the city. “I was yelled, screamed, honked at and was being forced to take some little street to the left (which either goes back to Lougheed or back to Broadway in circles). You are telling me not to go the regular way we go and they don't want me to take Lake City. So do you want me to fly to daycare? Please provide me with more contacts to figure this out. I need to take my son to daycare every morning none of your suggestions are working so far and no one is helping with this situation.”
Yikes.
I previously wrote about how the city was set to postpone the project for an undetermined time, but that residents fought to have it continue so they could get it over with.
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