Re: 鈥淒owntown birch felled for bike lane, crosswalk,鈥� Jan. 29.
Sadly, the opportunity for a high-profile provincial-municipal project has passed us by. The felling of the big birch tree at the foot of Government Street could have provided some really positive profile for the now-infamous provincial log splitter and proof that it really was needed. After all, it is only a short legislature-owned trailer ride from the legislative compound to the intersection under reconstruction.
What a scene it could have been, the trailer decked out in colourful bunting, provincial and municipal politicians making speeches and everyone arguing about what is more important, trees or bicycles.
Dale Leitch
Victoria
