Editor:
I was amazed when Mayor Beamish suggested Marine Drive from Horseshoe Bay to West Van as a model for the future of Gower Point Road (Coast Reporter, March 25). I have taken the bus on and also driven Marine Drive, where I’ve never seen a pedestrian, and I regularly walk Gower Point so I know both. Let me remind the mayor of the difference. For $3 million with $700,000 down, you can buy a duplex on Marine Drive. For $12 million you can buy a whole house. Those aren’t homes; they’re guarded vaults in neighbourhoods that are as devoid of life as any cemetery. The only local people on the Marine Drive bus are the teenaged children, cleaners and carers of the few remaining residents. We need traffic calming and other engineered solutions to provide a Gower Point Road for walkers, children and adults on bikes, runners, dogs, deer, drivers and all the varied life of our town.
Kathleen Vance, Gibsons
