Editor:
Re: Fred Gingell Park, Letter 23 September 2020
Yes, Bob and Donna, many in the Tsawwassen community appreciate Fred Gingell’s legacy for its location, its views, its environmental qualities … and its stairway access to the beach below.
Let us be grateful that we can – and do – enjoy all of these amenities during the COVID-19 pandemic, except for the last.
I don’t think it’s too much to ask people to refrain from using the stairs during this unusual period.
B.C. has already soiled its copybook by relinquishing its good COVID-19 habits too early.
Let’s not give comfort and encouragement to those who, for instance, jump over the gate at the top of the Gingell steps for their own gratification.
Although I respect your argument for twinning the Gingell stairway to “distance” simultaneous up and down traffic, I wonder whether accessing a single beach in this way is necessary for the residents of a peninsular community that boasts one of the lowest population densities in the Lower Mainland.
There are other beaches, parks and stairs people can access.
Granted, none quite so beautiful as Gingell Park, but we should be prepared to give up a little of our routine and privileged lives to put an early end to this pandemic, n’est pas?
Chris Stanton
