Dear editor,
Instead of the expense of a new bridge, why not just make 5th a pedestrian only street in the downtown core?
First and foremost that would make the downtown core a place where people want to be, gather and socialize.
Using this valuable space for parking cars or idling waiting to cross the bridge is highly questionable.
Closing 5th Street has huge benefits to bridge traffic, however. Traffic into the core can now be given preferential left turn onto Cliffe Avenue then free flows right onto 6th Street.
Traffic out of the core can flow smoothly with a preferential left turn from 6th onto Cliffe. The advantage of moving this traffic from 5th to 6th is that it no longer impedes inbound bridge traffic.
Everyone flows better, no new bridge lanes are needed and we get a re- energized downtown.
Dan Lemay
Courtenay
