Editor:
As Sea Cavalcade was being enjoyed, and deservedly so, by both residents and visitors in Gibsons last weekend, I found myself in one mighty traffic snarl.
I was on that pitifully two-kilometre short highway that, many years ago, was to introduce the Sunshine Coast to a new modern highway, a highway that would introduce the Sunshine Coast road system to the 21st century.
How impressed must our visitors be when they drive off the ferry and drive onto that great modern highway? But wait, after a couple of kilometres, the same old same old. Left on Stewart, right on North, right on Cemetery, Reed, Gibsons Way. Take your pick.
That two-kilometre highway was mightily expensive. If it was to be the start of a great new highwaynorth to Sechelt and beyond, then that expense was justified. But if that is the end of the story, it is, pardon the expression, highway robbery.
I have not heard, nor read, anything at all for years and years.
Maybe we should direct a scream or two at the powers that be.
Bernard McGrath, Langdale
