Editor: South Fraser Perimeter Road project director Geoff Freer seems to be, of late, taking some unwarranted abuse on this newspaper's letters page.
When the decision was made to provide northbound ramps from the SFPR to Highway 99 this meant that northbound lanes out of Ladner/Tsawwassen were doubled from two to four, and the status quo was no longer an option.
The only way to safely merge those four lanes with others headed for the same two-lane funnel was to merge each pair of lanes separately ahead of their arrival at the same merge point as before, at the end of the Highway 17A northbound ramp.
Once this highway safety decision was made, it also made sense to close the whole of the second lane on this ramp so that traffic headed north onto River Road is not impeded by traffic lining up for the tunnel. All of this was portrayed on project plans publicly available years before construction.
Municipal councils' inability to stop issuing building permits and approving new developments on agricultural land and rezoning for infill densification is a major source of ever-increasing traffic volumes, which is the real issue here.
In the meantime, don't blame those who do what is needed to keep us all safe on the road.
Adrian Wightman
