An open letter to Greg Kyllo, Shuswap MLA:
Last Sunday, one of our realtors at Royal LePage Access Real Estate was tragically killed west of Salmon Arm.
Mary Gould’s car was hit by an out of control semi-trailer on a precarious corner on our grossly inadequate two-lane Trans-Canada Highway.
This morning on the news, a mayor from the Lower Mainland was trying to convince people to vote “yes” to improve transit in the region. He said that if this doesn’t go through, people’s commutes would go from 30 minutes to one hour.
Now compare that extra commute time to a life. If people choose to live in the over-populated, urbanized area, traffic congestion is something they just have to deal with. Losing a life, should not be less important!
The B.C. government has stated many parts of the Trans-Canada Highway will be upgraded over the next 10 years.
Sadly, I don’t feel that’s good enough.
Given the importance of the Trans-Canada as a major trade route and the thousands of families that use it every day, this should be a project that is fast-tracked to complete four-laning from Kamloops to the Alberta border as soon as physically possible.
Many of us would love to see you, as MLA for the Shuswap, champion this cause.
Besides, many of those commuters from the Lower Mainland come up and use these highways to access the beaches and ski hills that make our area the jewel that it is.
They would see the benefits of that too.
I am requesting a meeting to discuss the government’s position and see if we can come up with a way to raise the four-laning on the priority list.
Marv Beer, Broker/Owner, Royal LePage Access Real Estate
