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Editor:
I’m writing in response to Hal Lindhagen’s letter titled “Building a bridge is the sustainable solution,” significantly his closing assertion that the disadvantages “appear conspicuously absent.” I’d counsel they’ve been conspicuously ignored!
Simply off the highest of my head, I can consider a number of disadvantages to constructing a bridge that might join us to the Decrease Mainland:
– The lack of habitat and pure locations for our wildlife, and us, that might happen when our inhabitants and improvement explodes;
– lack of our small city tradition, which is what many people worth greater than comfort;
– the pressure on our infrastructure which is already stretched to the restrict for six months of the yr or extra;
– the rise in carbon emissions as a consequence of elevated automobile journeys to and from the Coast due to the “comfort” of a bridge. And only a word, if our ferries are repurposed to supply extra entry to Vancouver Island then there wouldn’t be any discount in ferry emissions in any respect.
– the environmental impression and ecosystem disruption or destruction that might happen when constructing a bridge over our lovely Salish Sea. I don’t see how this may not have a destructive impression.
I’ve spent nearly my entire life both visiting or residing right here on the Sunshine Coast. We moved right here completely 33 years in the past as a result of it was a good looking place to boost our kids the place we weren’t surrounded by asphalt and concrete. Through the years, I’ve realized a lot concerning the pure world and to actually recognize and worth it! Constructing a bridge would destroy every little thing that makes this place particular!
Becky Wayte
Halfmoon Bay
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