Opinion

Editor: I recently read two articles that you wrote in the Burnaby NOW . The first one is the article on the vertigo driver and the latter is the distracted driver vs. speeding article .

The City of Surrey has recently been in the news for issuing bylaw infraction warnings to Uber drivers. Essentially, Surrey’s bylaw officers are using the app to order a ride hailing service, and then issuing the driver a warning upon their arrival.

Editor: I read about a kid who was run over at 17 Avenue and Humphries Street. I noticed that Humphries is only street in the area without sidewalk. Humphries has more pedestrian and vehicle traffic than any other street in area.

Distracted driving is one of those road crimes that some people seem OK with in a way that’s different from speeding. People get viscerally angry about speeding, but seem to just shrug at distracted driving.

Twenty years have passed since my last homework assignment, yet I still have nightmares about the mind-numbing math equations, tongue-twisting spelling words and Encyclopedia-quoting essays of my youth.

At the top of the news in recent weeks has been the potent new coronavirus from the Chinese city of Wuhan. So far, the only confirmed case in Canada is being well-managed by health-care workers in Toronto.

Ride hailing has now set up shop in B.C. and depending on how you look at it, this development is either a tremendous breakthrough or the worst thing to come along in quite a while. The traditional taxi situation has clearly failed riders.

It’s tricky when a person has a medical condition that limits their ability to drive a vehicle. I want people to have the mobility that comes with being able to drive.

Editor: Re: Sorry, bozo, you can’t turn left at this Burnaby intersection. Ever, NOW Blogs I support you 100%. New Westminster still allows about 20 parked cars at all hours on the south side of 10th Avenue between 4th Street and McBride.

Just look at the photos attached to this blog and soak in the awfulness. Imagine the kind of laziness and lack of respect it takes to park your vehicle like this and then walk away.