Editor:
I am interested to know why the Town of Gibsons has funded a new sidewalk on the water side of North Road. What is the rationale? Can anyone give me an answer that makes sense? This is a road with not a great deal of foot traffic and there is already a sidewalk all along one side from Reed to Gibsons Way. And they fail to take the new one all the way to Reed in a section where the majority of residences are.
This new sidewalk, built with much disruption and with a lot of care to the pretty corners, goes from the Heritage Theatre, past a few houses, past a great deal of scrubland, to the corner of Seacot. At which point, another pretty corner has been made and it has ended there.
Two questions: why waste money on it in the first place, and secondly, why stop at Seacot? It appears that the residents of Gibsons who live in eight duplex townhouses and a seniors strata with 22 houses, where more than one senior rides a motorized vehicle, are lesser citizens, not worthy of a sidewalk.
The motorized vehicle riders have to cross North Road in between traffic unsafely, because it is difficult to ride along the grass, gravel and rough places beside the road on their own side, not to mention the many vehicles that park on the boulevard on that side near the duplexes, blocking them from going along that side if they wanted to. Even the few pedestrians walking along there are forced to walk out and into the road to get by, with the Town giving no tickets or warnings. I’ve seen warnings and tickets on the other side for similar activity.
Interesting. I have my own theories. Anyone?
Valerie Pusey, Gibsons
