Editor:
I’d like to thank S.M. Armstrong and Dr. Hamilton for their recent letters to the Coast Reporter concerning the closure of Glassford Road last fall, and more recently, Blain Lane, because of further disruptions caused by a poorly conceived traffic calming experiment under way in lower Gibsons.
Traffic indeed has been calmed on Glassford, as there is none. Walkers and residents with strollers and their dogs are now free to traverse the middle of the road, while one block away vehicles race along the unsigned narrow section of Gower Point Road where they are now forced to travel. The west side of Gower Point is skirted by steep driveways, and an array of mailboxes, where drivers frequently stop, and pedestrians must now be especially vigilant and ready to jump out of the way of speeding vehicles rounding a partially blind curve in this short section of poorly maintained road. Sometimes pedestrians can be heard yelling at motorists to “SLOW DOWN.” The situation is especially dangerous and noisy during people’s morning and afternoon commutes through the village.
I strongly agree with these two earlier letters published in the Reporter; a significant safety problem has resulted from the Town’s most recent traffic calming experiment. It is unbalanced, and a serious inconvenience has been created for those living and walking along Gower Point Road. Clearly, a more reasonable solution for calming traffic is to better distribute the burden that’s developed in Lower Gibsons by reopening Glassford Road and Blain Lane and by implementing measures immediately to slow everyone down.
W.Y. Chiu, Gibsons
