Editor: It is becoming obvious that I am not the only Township resident concerned with the current proposed changes in the local traffic patterns.
All the latest information out of the B.C Ministry of Transport is vague to non-existent.
There is, in my mind, an inevitability to the requirement for transportation corridor upgrades if not outright change and expansions.
Because of my vested interest in the future of 264 Street (Highway 13), I have downloaded all available documents from the B.C. Transport website, along with questions to the Township regarding the plans for the future.
At best, they are non-committal or purposely misdirected.
To me the exponential growth of heavy truck traffic and the change of the Aldergrove border crossing to a commercial crossing is a portent of the future — loud truck traffic, increased noise and particulate pollution.
The department of transportation and the Township have no plans in place that take any consideration for the health and financial wellbeing of residents living along Highway 13.
Putting this quite bluntly, the Township and province have been caught with their pants down.
Someone in Victoria making life decisions for residents of the Township is ludicrous.
The area representative for the transport department is non-responsive to inquiries, as is the ministry itself.
They acknowledge emails but do not bother to reply.
Perhaps my questions are too close to the mark.
If the province and Township have no plans to expropriate property for the doubling of Highway 13 — and have advised me they have no plans for sound barriers — I am at a loss as to what my future health and financial status will be.
Will particulate pollution put me in a hospital or assisted care home?
Will noise pollution contribute to loss of hearing? Someone has the answers.
Who that is, is a mystery.
Terry Brenan,
Aldergrove