Re: Collaboration key to soothing Sooke’s commute woes (Editorial, April 18)
Sooke will only solve its commute woes by addressing the worst, most central bottleneck of the whole drive, the river crossing.
We have seen the traffic coming into Sooke while driving east during rush hour. It is stop-and-go from the bridge for miles. West of the bridge could stand some expansion, too. Sooke’s core road system is not designed to handle all the traffic during rush hour.
It is Sooke’s problem, not the provincial Ministry of Highways, except since the bridge is part of Highway 14.
The costly “improvement” around the Gillespie Road interchange has not made the commute one minute faster.
The best would be a second crossing to the north that would connect with Throup Road and Wadams Way, but who will want that or pay for it.
David Camas
Sooke