Re: 鈥淚s the Colwood Crawl driving you crazy?鈥� column, Nov. 8.
Why are so many people surprised this situation is taking place?
View Royal and Esquimalt each took major four-lane roads and made them into two-lane roads, Victoria replaced a main bridge and did not replace the rail line on it. Build, build, build and build some more in the West Shore (did I say build enough?), with more to come (i.e. Colwood Corners et聽al).
The premier says there is no business case to upgrade the E&N rail line while at the same time the Capital Regional District and others continue to install safety equipment on rusted-out railway crossings, and people wonder why the traffic is so bad.
When my wife and I were house-hunting last fall and winter, we looked at View Royal, Colwood and Langford for about three minutes and thought nope; not going to happen, based on traffic concerns alone.
We moved from New Westminster and now live in North Saanich and are very happy for it. Just recently a developer pulled plans off the table for that Sidney property near the airport 鈥� good. The Canadian Tire grand opening here in Sidney 鈥� we did not really need it. There are lots of quality local businesses already.
I look forward to seeing the McKenzie interchange project finished, but is it really going to solve things or simply move the problem?
Vince Kreiser
North Saanich
