Letters to the Times Colonist newspaper from our readers: Transportation on Vancouver Island, the cancellation of Dilbert and woolly mammoth vandalism.
Dilbert cancellation smacks of McCarthyism As a small child I remember the furor when cartoonist Walt Kelly was condemned for his stand against Senator Joe McCarthy, and how many newspapers stopped carrying Pogo because of the depiction of McCarthy as a polecat determined to lynch the innocent.
The issue of freight trains having the right-of-way over passenger trains is just a matter of reversing priorities, as was the case in the heyday of passenger railway when passenger trains were given green light over freight trains. Petty officialdom and ancient turf protections take precedence over the obvious need for radical management restructuring. The “elephant on a bicycle” is beyond a joke.
There were family people waiting to get home, the Royston cub troup going on a field trip to the Elks camp, and trades people on the Denman side trying to get home after long work days. The cable barge is a failure. It does not work. It has not saved money, needing frequent cable replacements, call outs and repair. That is not even calculating the disruption and the costs of lost work days and time for everyone who has to travel on the damn thing.
What then? Well one thing is for sure and that is future generations struggling with how to move people and freight up and down a single highway serving a population that has doubled will say: “How could they have been so dumb?” Simple math tells you that we the good folk of Victoria are paying almost $25 every time a cyclist parks their trusty steed at City Hall.
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