Editor:
I want to endorse everything said by Yvonne Mounsey in her letter (“Lower Road is not a highway,” Sept. 16).
The number of cars, large trucks and vans using Lower Road has doubled in the past few months, since work began on the highway at Joe and Orange Road, and too many are traveling well over the posted speed limit. And many well-meaning Creek drivers are enabling this illegal speeding by pulling over so not to impede the tailgaters.
If drivers who are using Lower Road instead of the highway, to get to Gibsons or Sechelt, find that it is not faster because the speed limit is actually 30 km/h slower on Lower Road, they may stay on the highway.
I have lived on Lower Road for 40 years and, lately, I feel like I am risking my life just walking to the mailbox.
Please, fellow Creekers, do not be an enabler to this hazardous, high-risk chaos of speeding cars and trucks.
Carolann Glover
Roberts Creek
Stelk’aya, territory of Squamish First Nation, xwesam aka Roberts Creek
