I was shocked to read that once again Sidney Councillor Lougher-Goodey is trying to bury the Downtown Sidney Traffic Study.
This study was paid for by the Sidney taxpayers and should be publically presented to them for comment and direction before council acts — not the other way around. In a previous edition you reported Councillor Lougher-Goodey as stating that there was no point involving the public as they had not seen the consultants’ presentation.
That is easily rectified, as I previously recommended council should organize a public information meeting at the Mary Winspear Centre, have the consultants make their presentation, gather the public’s comments and recommendations and then decide what action to take. After all, most of us well remember that it was a previous council’s unilateral action (without any professional advice or public consultation) that reduced our on-street parking and lumbered us with the current convoluted and unpopular one-way system we have today.
This time let’s get it right and listen to the professional traffic consultants and the public before acting.
Richard D. B. Talbot
Sidney
