Editor:
Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure’s (MOTI) continued disregard for Highway 101 safety is “Same old, same old.” We don’t have the population density to “matter” here.
I’ve lived in Gibsons since 1980. Every year there are tragic deaths on our highway. Memorials mark accident sites, which fade with years, and nothing is done. Our population grows, our tourism booms, but our highway isn’t improved. So what gets us the attention we need?
The MOTI non-answer is short, nasty and brutish. We need MORE DEATHS. Not enough of us Coasters have been lost YET on our roads for our government to engage – not even if accidents happen consistently at the same places in the road (for 40+ years running).
I hope it’s not your family, or mine, to someday suffer the loss that makes our statistics finally count. But it will be one of ours, I’m sorry to say. MOTI simply needs to see more of us dead before they help.
That’s apparently how provincial government “works” here.
Sarah Roberts, Gibsons
