As you know, way back in 1996, a new road was built at Langdale. It moved the traffic bottleneck at the ferry terminal to the top of the hill two kilometres away and afforded a place to unload the ferry.
However, it was supposed to be a Gibsons bypass, but it stopped at the top of the hill and funneled all the traffic into Gibsons by means of a totally inadequate local road, not permitting any of the traffic to bypass Gibsons as it was supposed to do.
As a highway, it's a white elephant - utterly useless. It should have been built at least as far as to connect with Payne Road so that northbound traffic could indeed have bypassed most of Gibsons.
Thirteen years later and still no bypass! Instead we have the bottleneck which gets worse every year and which persists right into Gibsons, wasting thousands of hours of time and thousands of litres of gas by traffic proceeding at a snail's pace - and nobody seems to be able to do anything about it.
I suggest that everyone who uses the ferry write to the Ministry of Transport and try to get some action to get the road built to fulfill its intended purpose. Let's deluge the government with hundreds of letters and let them know our plight. By now, we need the bypass to go way beyond Payne Road - even to Sechelt, since Highway 101 is rapidly becoming inadequate.
Tom Wood, Sechelt
