No surprise that the Massey Bridge is really just one piece of a larger strategy to shape the region around highways and, inevitably, to put immense pressure on the ALR. But, be assured, there’s nothing written down to that effect.
Occasionally there are announcements. And the ongoing implementation of instructions by people you have not heard of, answerable to no one in the region, but with all the money to proceed. No referendum needed.
What is a better alternative for the tunnel replacement in a growing region with 30+ ports ? Another tunnel, deeper and wider, which too needs similar land for ramps ? A ferry ? More bike lanes ? A sign ” BC is closed for business and immigration. Go away.” ?
It’s classic leftie BC. No industry, no resource production, no mining, organic hobby farming, no cargo shipping and now – no roads. Just a nice little resort with golf carts and bikes for the rich. It’s the aging hippies having their Norman Rockwell idilic folkloric nostalgic dream.
If Christy paid attention to the inflamed imaginations of love-struck supporters like Thomas and Eric, then we are well on the way to rocketing past $100 billion in provincial debt, killing the $2 billion a year local agricuture industry, and importing all our food from the 2-4-D saturated fields of Mexico.
But vinyl siding sales will increase with the flimsy new subdivisions in the ALR, as will the sales of asthma medication and asphalt paving equipment. Here’s to a sustainable economy!
Since BC is larger in land area than Washington, Oregon and California COMBINED there exists quite a bit of land for food production. As global warming increases more land will become suitable for more crops. A small area of land to replace a 70 year old little tunnel is inconsequential. Efficient roads are essential, even if only so we can cruise down to Portland in our Teslas to see how their transit works.
So many of those poor souls in those vinyl clad suburban subdivisions are weeping in sadness that their buildings were not clad in that wonderful pink stucco that used to be so popular.
It’s not by accident that Tom Silva of This Old House put vinyl siding on his own house.
You know what’s bigger than BC though, Nunavut! So given the totally relevant argument that size matters, we’ll have tons of room for crops!