To the editor:
Re: "Student pedestrian safety not just election issue," Sept. 6.
As a regular visitor to the Gastown area, I can assure the Vancouver city council that it has made matters much worse with the lower speed limit on Hastings Street. The area is now a concrete playground and the irresponsible area inhabitants are now totally oblivious to car traffic.
People in wheelchairs and on crutches wander into the traffic ignoring stoplights and oncoming cars with reckless abandon.
I am not suggesting that hitting people with cars is the survival of the fittest tactic required to get the folks to observe the signals. But enforcement of prohibitions against jaywalking and belligerent behaviour by the found-ins could be controlled if cars take back the street and city councillors act as volunteer traffic wardens. Heaven knows, the more time spent away from city hall, the less damage they as councillors can do to our city's livability
Rick Angus,
Vancouver
