LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
- July 31, 2007
To The Editor;
Millions has been spent on highway work to Squamish, a Skytrain extension to Vancouver Airport and now the completion of the Coquihalla Connector to Merritt. Good for Merritt - now experiencing major growth (and Princeton shoppers) as Kelowna and Kamloops has before it.
Many roads do now lead to Merritt and thanks to past Premier Bill Bennett, Merritt (a.k.a. Bennettburg?) no longer is a speck of dust on a road map on a non-windy day.
How about we folks on the "Heritage Highway" - Highway 3, notably from Eastgate to Keremeos?
We kind of like Highways Minister Kevin Falcon and Small Business Minister Rick Thorpe but we would like them more if they would give us at least a glance and some passing lanes or better still - a future plan for our "Heritage Highway 3" which goes back to the century before last.
Get behind some old 'geezer' like us or tourist for a medical appointment in Penticton and you nearly have to take supplies and leave a week early to make it.
On the critical agenda they should put a "rock shed" at Peterson Bluffs and the two Red Bluffs on the freeway from Princeton to Tulameen, especially with the increased traffic before someone gets killed.
Red Bluffs is of great concern to B. C. ball players because Red Bluffs is consuming all the chewing gum in holding the road to the mountain hundreds of feet above the Tulameen River.
We enterprising, responsible folks don't ask for much but the little much we ask for matters - plain and simple "Road Sense!"
Regards,
Joe Schwarz, Princeton
