Editor,
Re: White Rock elected leaders are the face of change
I'm all for women in politics and am glad to see more and more women willing to step up and run and serve, despite knowing they will sometimes be attacked for their views and policies.
No one, regardless of sex deserves to be threatened. But perhaps these three women, Megan Knight, Elaine Cheung and Michele Partridge, who all should be commended for being willing to serve their community, should focus their efforts on pointing out to the B.C. legislature that White Rock is not geographically suitable for so many additional apartment and condo units due to the fact that the infrastructure is already struggling to keep up with the ones we presently have.
Traffic has become a nightmare, at the very least tripling the time to get anywhere that only two or three years ago was a quick trip. All too often a journey I regularly take from my home just barely outside the White Rock border to businesses I frequent in White Rock takes me close to half an hour when it used to take a mere five to seven minutes.
We are on a peninsula here in White Rock and South Surrey. There is nowhere to go but up, adding highrises and congestion with no ability to add roads or expand their width.
You can't manufacture more land, and the powers that be in the B.C. legislature need to be made aware that what was once a lovely community is now becoming grossly overcrowded and, quite frankly, ugly.
While I fully realize things change and I realistically can't expect to live in the idyllic, charming seaside community of my youth, I find it sad to discover that White Rock is now the fifth most densely populated city in B.C. and in the most recent statistic I could find, ninth in Canada. Ninth! Only being narrowly beat on the list by the likes of Vancouver, Montreal and Toronto.
We need to be removed from the requirements of the B.C. Homes for People Action Plan. Ladies, please concentrate your efforts on doing that, not pushing for even more population density. Thank you.
S. de Pencier, South Surrey
