Dear Editor,
Re: “Richmond car show is muscling in on my beauty sleep,” Letters, online, July 2.
Unfortunately, the silence is also shattered elsewhere in the city, and the safety of residents is in regular jeopardy too.
I live close enough to Garden City Shopping Centre to have almost every Thursday, Friday and Saturday evening well disrupted.
Both cars and bikes noisily come and go between 8pm and 1am.
The revving of the engines is one thing, but the real madness begins when the cars pull out of the lot and try to show off by flooring it for a block and a half through a residential neighbourhood.
My neighbours and I routinely report the madness to police but, understandably, the cops have more important things on their plate.
I get it; car meets are cool, and I want them to have a place.
But for many reasons, I just don’t see a good location in the city to have them. I’ve tried to think of other areas, such as the airport or an industrial park, but each has its challenges.
Sadly, it’s going to take a tragedy, such as one of these high-horsepower cars wiping out a family at a crosswalk, before anybody sees the risk to the public that I see.
Wayne Woo
Richmond
Dear Editor,
Re: “Richmond car show is muscling in on my beauty sleep,” Letters, online, July 2.
Unfortunately, the silence is also shattered elsewhere in the city, and the safety of residents is in regular jeopardy too.
I live close enough to Garden City Shopping Centre to have almost every Thursday, Friday and Saturday evening well disrupted.
Both cars and bikes noisily come and go between 8pm and 1am.
The revving of the engines is one thing, but the real madness begins when the cars pull out of the lot and try to show off by flooring it for a block and a half through a residential neighbourhood.
My neighbours and I routinely report the madness to police but, understandably, the cops have more important things on their plate.
I get it; car meets are cool, and I want them to have a place.
But for many reasons, I just don’t see a good location in the city to have them. I’ve tried to think of other areas, such as the airport or an industrial park, but each has its challenges.
Sadly, it’s going to take a tragedy, such as one of these high-horsepower cars wiping out a family at a crosswalk, before anybody sees the risk to the public that I see.
Wayne Woo
Richmond
