Thursday’s letters: Don’t let Dreeshen mess with Edmonton’s bike lanes

Re. “Bike lanes no business of the UCP government,” Keith Gerein, April 22

I currently use the bike lane on 102 Avenue to go to work at the Royal Alexandra and Stollery Hospitals. Before dedicated lanes, I cycled in downtown Toronto, being stuck twice by drivers who were responsible but didn’t see/anticipate a cyclist. I also witnessed two separate instances of cyclists struck that did not turn out well.

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Edmonton’s bike lanes save lives and encourage a healthy, stress-free commute. Please don’t let a minister without first-hand experience interfere with the city’s plan.

Delores Poppe, Edmonton

Access the real issue on 132 Ave.

Keith Gerein is using the 132 Avenue debacle as a way to rant about the UCP government. The Killarney residents are not opposed to one wide bike lane. This is not swapping car lanes for bike lanes.

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This is the removal of a four-lane road with service lanes, leaving very limited or no access to homes, businesses and schools. If someone needs an ambulance, taxi, fire truck, furniture delivered, or even friends wanting to visit, there is no adequate parking.

Wendy Mitchell, Edmonton

Project ruins perfectly good road

Re. “132 Avenue project has been a disaster,” Letters, April 10

Please, please, stop this project. Una Warner has correctly stated the senseless waste of time and money to supposedly “improve” a perfectly adequate four-lane road by changing it into a two-lane road, thereby limiting parking, access to properties by students, homeowners, visitors, and emergency vehicles. Our tax dollars need to be better spent.

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Other major roads need repair, and not just pothole filling, which seems to take too long to happen and the next spring they are all back again. Have you driven down this road? I haven’t found any taxpayer who lives in this area who asked for this project.

W.L. Mitchell, Edmonton

Liberals have done much for Alberta

As an Albertan, I can say the Liberals did more for Alberta in the last eight years than than the Cons, both federally and provincially, have ever done for Alberta in the last 50 years. They got us through COVID and built a pipeline while trying to take some action on climate change.

Can anyone think of even one thing the Cons have ever done for Alberta other than taking our royalties and giving them to their fossil-fuel masters and moving Alberta closer to a fascist regime? Highest insurance rates. Highest electrical rates and selling out our eastern Rockies to Australian coal barons. Mired in corruption scandals. Poilievre has declared he will override the Charter and basically run the government by decree.

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Remind you of somebody? When the deficit is trimmed, it will be those who can least afford it who will pay for it. That is the Con way. I hope the Conservative party rids itself of its extremist tendencies and finds its way back to its roots.

Mark Pearson, Edmonton

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