To the editor:
Re: "Keep trucks off Clark Drive, we've suffered enough," Letters, July 22.
Living off Nanaimo Street, I can understand Courier letter writer Evangeline Carr's relief at losing much of the port's truck traffic from Clark Drive, however this does not justify the port's misguided decisions over the decades to reduce its truck access routes from six or even a dozen to now only one and a half, thus increasing pollution, driving time and shifting their problem from Commissioner Street (now their quiet private domain) to busy city streets.
Construction of the Knight Street Bridge and Clark Drive overpass decades ago created the direct route from the South to the port and it is senseless for the port to now unilaterally declare this route redundant.
In the longer term, I agree with Ms. Carr that rail makes more sense. But our semidemocratic governance system allows no citizen influence on such a decision.
Colin Stark, Vancouver
