Cascade Park resident Jim McConnell shares a letter he wrote council members about the Save Our Streets efforts
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I hope you are doing well and have done your research into who and what to vote for. We are blessed to live in a country where we have a say in electing our representatives and initiatives, although not as much as we used to have. Below is a letter I wrote to several of our Vancouver City Council members – FYI. Only one wrote back — it looked like an automated response. If you have not yet signed the petition to save our streets and keep the city from increasing traffic jams, please consider doing so.
Dear Elected City Officials, (the 4 up for election)
My wife and I specifically moved to our home on McGillivray Blvd. seven years ago because we love this area and the boulevard. It is easy to drive and beautiful to watch as we go through our neighborhood.
Between 80 and 90 percent of the people in Cascade Park and those who use McGillivray Blvd do not want our street destroyed by taking it down to one lane each way. You seem to want to force your will on the people who live here. I hate the fact that you are not listening to your constituents. You are not acting like elected representatives but like authoritarian dictators.
Do any of you live in Cascade Park? Why do you want to clog our boulevard and greatly inconvenience us? Isn’t your job to help Vancouver residents, not to hurt them? Along with dozens of other concerned citizens, I have worked to inform people in our neighborhood of your destructive plans.
I have recently retired from 42 years of encouraging and supporting students and their parents as a public-school educator. I have never responded the way I feel I have to respond to you. If you continue pushing your selfish agenda to destroy our street, I will work even harder to see that you are not re-elected.
Jim McConnell
Vancouver
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