LETTER: Plan for Queen Street should be left at curb

SooToday received the following letter to the editor in response to city council's deliberations over the future of Queen Street — and those who oppose the plan. Councilors voted last night to defer the decision.

The proposed plan for downtown Queen Street is expensive and totally unreasonable considering that money for this project could be better used fixing our deplorable roads.

This advocacy group for cyclists (that is what this is about, not making downtown more welcoming etc.) is way off base. Is it not enough for them that many roads have been reduced to two lanes to accommodate bicycle lanes?

Let us all stop and think about this. After all, it is a huge inconvenience to motorists and they are the ones who stand to lose most; the cyclists only win.

Also, those of us who are disabled or elderly (our population is aging) need easy access to parking on Queen. This is something those young and fit enough to cycle will not appreciate until they are older and/or disabled.

Carol Netherton