Editor:
Re: Rail fence disappoints, Feb. 24.
Interesting that Transport Canada ordered the new prison fencing along the waterfront BNSF rail line east of Finlay Street.
If you want to see what unfriendly looks like, check it out.
While you’re in the area, walk a few blocks and check out the large pay-parking lot in Semiahmoo Park behind Washington Avenue Grill restaurant. There you will see a dangerous rock-strewn path leading steeply up to the rail tracks then over to the shoreline. This location is in Surrey, so not a White Rock council issue.
There is a fence surrounding the entire area thanks to the Semiahmoo band, however a large gate is always open to this unimproved path leading to BNSF rail property.
It seems clear that the parking lot and the nearby dangerous pedestrian footpath crossing are not viewed with the same safety concern as we see one kilometre west in White Rock. Shouldn’t Transport Canada show the same behaviour, regardless of the location?
Or is this waterfront overhaul, as White Rock Mayor Wayne Baldwin described, an “overreaction?”
Dennis Smith, White Rock
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The East Beach fence is not going to prevent pedestrians who risk themselves by listening to music through a headphone while crossing the track at designated crossings, as was in the case of the fatal accident in July 2013.
Fen Kong Liew, Surrey
