Editor:
The public consultation on Oct. 7 about the sea walk park was as noisy and contentious as the original meeting about the highways widening at Davis Bay.
The Ministry of Trans-portation and Infrastructure (MOTI) has put District of Sechelt council between a rock and a hard place.
The first priority for council was the Selma Park hill widening (for many years now) because it posed the most danger for riders of bikes, fender benders and people walking along the highway.
Council was offered more money from MOTI if they made the Davis Bay Road area their first priority. The problem is you cannot find 10 people outside council who want Highway 101 widening in Davis Bay to proceed and our sea wall park to be eroded.
The safety priority is the Selma Park hill. If it is a matter of safety, then council will not take the MOTI's $2.5 million and put whatever money they have for highways into widening the Selma Park hill.
If nothing else, it should be widened for the woman who fears for her life every time she rides her bike to work from Roberts Creek to Sechelt; the person who has had three cars in their yard, one on the roof and a dead person in their driveway; or the man near Havies who saw a person killed right in front of his house.
Vancouver has been working hard to make many streets green and bicycle friendly. This would be the win-win that council has been looking for.
Yes, there was heat at the Seaside Centre on that cool October night, and for a good reason.
Bob Evermon
Davis Bay
