The Editor, I would like to thank my fellow gardener Cathy Sichewski from the Railway Community Gardens for taking the city to task for their plan to add a four-metre black top pathway, three feet from the garden plots.
This is a ridiculous concept for a greenway. There is nothing green about asphalt.
Coun. Harold Steves is right when he said, "To put it through the allotment gardens, I just don't think anybody was really thinking what we'd already done there."
I want to ask Mike Redpath, senior manager of parks, if he ever left city hall to look at how this project would change the existing gardens. This was done on the fly without a plan according to those I talked to on site. Seems to me that someone was in a hurry here and forgot to consult the stake holders.
David Merke
Richmond
