Re: "Solo drivers clog Victoria roads," Sept. 21.
Let me see if I understand this correctly. Based on the Capital Regional District study published last Friday, there were 791,278 (79.6 per cent) car trips per day and 29,403 (2.8 per cent) bicycle trips per day and the rest made up of a declining number of mass transit trips (6.4 per cent) and walking (12.8 per cent).
Yet the CRD proposes expanding rushhour bus lanes and spending millions for bicycle lanes. The math doesn't add up.
At some point, the CRD needs to come to grips with the fact that the most rational solution to the traffic issue is get cars moving more efficiently, and the only way to do that is to get rid of bottlenecks such as the McKenzie interchange.
Wishful thinking and bad planning are not the answer.
Chris Sheldon
Victoria
