CollingwoodToday welcomes letters to the editor at [email protected] or via the website. Please include your full name, daytime phone number and address (for verification of authorship, not publication). The following letter was sent in response to the Town of Collingwood's plans for the reconstruction of Sixth Street.
There are several folks furious with council's decision to remove more trees.
This time on Sixth Street and last time on Hurontario Street across from the high school.
When walkers plan a route under the ever-increasing high temperatures they look for shady streets.
It would be many many years before newly planted trees cast shade. Look at the new sidewalk across from the high school. It looks so barren and unfriendly, and with so few walkers.
In 30 years will bike lanes be a huge issue. Not with our current traffic issues.
As a senior with grandkids who love to ride their bikes never would we let them ride a bike lane.
In our many streets speeding cars and now trucks are the key issues.
If you want to keep Collingwood family- and kid-friendly think about speed controls, add stop signs, put in more speed bumps or investigate more such measures but please leave our trees alone.
Don't be fooled by pleasant re-design images.
As the sci-fi writer Ray Bradbury once said, any society where a man totally encased in steel takes precedence over a natural human being is already a sci-fi nightmare.
There is a need to rethink this issue.
Jim and Elaine Cunningham
Collingwood, Ont.
