The Editor,
Re: "City opposes farmland crossing option for Massey Tunnel," News, March 13.
I read with interest about the planning for a new tunnel or bridge to replace the George Massey Tunnel.
What we also need is for the City of Richmond and the highway contractor to address the lack of maintenance that is being done to the roadways.
What's the point in planning new bridges and tunnels when they can't look after the existing roadways we have now.
Steveston Highway and No. 5 Road improvements are at a standstill and has left the motoring public with a strip of road that is filled with dangerous holes, drop offs and unfinished pavement.
The overpass at Highway 99 is long overdue for replacement but the city powers still insist on cramming as many new buildings and homes in the area without the network of roads to service the amount of traffic that goes through the area now.
As for the tunnel, when was the last time the contractor actually sent out a work crew to clean up all the accumulated rocks, sand and other debris that get thrown around from the tunnel, its approaches and the on-and off-ramps?
These turn into dangerous missiles, taking out windshields and I'm sure it causes it's share of accidents.
This is the first look many of our first time visitors get of the City of Richmond and it is not a pretty one.
David Neil Richmond
