Re: "Transit must be part of overall regional planning," Sept. 15.
There are so many flaws in the focus on transit for Capital Regional District planning that this space is nowhere near large enough to address them all. However, here are a few highlights.
People who commute to the downtown area to work are typically working in well-paid jobs. They can afford homes in Langford, for example, and vehicles.
They don't want to get on rickety buses where they may have to stand with rude teenagers and the great unwashed, where they can't control their environment: temperature, noise, or the manner in which the bus is being driven.
What about after work? People may want to grocery-shop on the way home, pick up the kids, visit elderly parents, go to the gym, hit the links, etc. Taking the bus doesn't cut it.
What sort of passenger vehicles will we be driving 25 years from now in the CRD? Will they still be relatively large and polluting dinosaurs powered by the internal-combustion engine, or will vehicles continue to trend downward in size and be running on cleaner-burning fuels?
The car is not the enemy here. Give people the roads they want to drive on, paid for by their tax dollars.
Trevor Amon
Victoria
