To the editor:
Once again poor planning by city management more concerned with transferring city funds into the pockets of the local construction industry has reared up in the faces of city council.
Is there not a truck scale on Red River Road and has it not been there for at least 40 years, yet we are encouraged to develop properties that access this road. What did everyone think the consequences would be?
Now we want to divert truck traffic to a longer route that simply passes the problem on to another municipality. Wasn't that municipality consulted when the bypass was built or was this just another make-work project for the construction industry?
Poorly planned expansion of the city has turned what is laughingly called an Expressway into just another city road festooned with traffic lights which truckers try to avoid and rightly so. Let's recognize the Expressway and Red River Road for what they are -- just two more poorly planned city arteries -- drop speed limits appropriately and begin to lobby government for funds to build a proper bypass or better yet get the province to built it, as we can ill afford to do it ourselves.
Let's keep it outside of city limits so it can't be ruined by the poor planning of city management. We are constantly told that we need to pay top dollar and substantial bonuses to get and keep good help but at every turn these people make a mockery of that whole idea and the mess on Red River Road is only one example.
The people of Thunder Bay can't fire city management but hopefully come next election we won't re-elect the same group to represent us but instead install some fresh ideas that aren't always dipping into our pocketbooks every time city management deems it necessary.
John Brewer,
Thunder Bay
