Re: "Mayor's motion for more bus shelters in North Delta defeated," Nov. 21, 2024
Councillor Binder,
I was surprised to read in the North Delta Reporter your hypocritical comments about investigating the need for additional bus shelters in North Delta.
Although you voted in September in favour of Councillor Johal’s motion to install additional bus shelters in Tilbury, where her family owns a business, you voted against studying the need for additional bus shelters in North Delta because it “could cause South Delta residents to also feel excluded.”
In the spring, despite the vocal opposition and strong feelings of North Delta residents, you voted in favour of a new OCP that designated a six-kilometre strip of Scott Road in our community for highrises up to 32 storeys. No such highrise developments were designated in South Delta. And now you express mock concern for the feelings of residents of South Delta, when in the spring you ignored the feelings of residents in North Delta.
[Editor's note: the area around Tsawwassen Town Centre has been designated as an "urban centre" allowing for up to 24 storeys "where a significant community contribution is provided.”]
The needs of North Delta, with the bulk of the population and the bulk of the growth in Delta, have for too long been dismissed by Delta city council. We have many challenges in North Delta that council is not only ignoring, but making worse.
The ever increasing traffic congestion from commuters rat running through our neighbourhoods to and from Surrey is a serious issue that has received little attention from council.
The increased density that some members of council envision for our North Delta community is just one example of the neglect that residents here feel from a council that appears to have no concern whatsoever for the worsening quality of life in our neighbourhoods.
If you reversed your position on this issue and Councillor Johal gave the same support to bus shelters for residents of our community as she did to the businesses in Tilbury and Annacis Island, we could just get on with with this project and perhaps make a difference for those residents who have to wait in the rain and cold for a bus in North Delta.
I urge you to reconsider.
Richard Hoover, North Delta
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