Letters

Vancouver has not only increased the downtown bike paths and connectors but has also installed bike corrals and other improvements to make cycling safer and easier.

Does anybody else have an Olympic hangover? Hockey season had better start soon because, God bless the Canadian Football League, which really tries to fill the void, we're ready for more high-level sports.

I am a strong economic conservative, and this is the biggest reason I support the Capital Regional District's pedestrian and cycling master plan. Many of our communities are facing aging roads that are at the end of their lifespans.

Re: "Enbridge stirs up controversy with depiction of waterway," Aug. 15. Beyond the issue of growing public mistrust of Enbridge as a potential builder of the Northern Gateway pipeline, there is a more important issue.

Customers of ICBC - everyone who owns a car - should be angered by an audit that found mismanagement and unreasonable salaries and spending. But the anger should be directed at the government. Crown corporations don't operate in a vacuum.

If Ottawa forces Northern Gateway on B.C., we still have alternatives

Picture this, if you can. A cartoon stick figure wearing a maple leaf grins as he gives an exuberant boot to a little frog wearing a fleur-de-lis.

Re: "Bird experts aflutter over drop in rufous hummingbird numbers," Aug. 16. I wonder at the logic of equating the reduction in migratory hummingbirds to the issue of climate change.

Re: "Move carefully on sewage plant," Aug. 15. The editorial correctly states that the debate on sewage treatment is over. A political decision has been forced over sound, scientific objections.

Whenever a culture gets big enough, someone will come along and try to create a cool crowd within it.