LETTER TO THE EDITOR | Langley lift the worst of all financial worlds

Editor, I wonder how Victoria Clipper passengers who use walkers would feel if they took a funicular or elevator from the marina and found themselves at Fourth Street and Cascade Avenue. Actually, I don’t wonder, since I’ve worked with that population my entire professional career, almost 40 years now. They would sit down on the nearest bench and ask when the ride to town was coming, since it was too far to walk. When they were finished enjoying downtown, they would ask for a ride back to the marina, since the walk back to the funicular/elevator would be not only long, but slightly uphill as well.

March 24, 2015 6:29 pm

Editor,

I wonder how Victoria Clipper passengers who use walkers would feel if they took a funicular or elevator from the marina and found themselves at Fourth Street and Cascade Avenue.

Actually, I don’t wonder, since I’ve worked with that population my entire professional career, almost 40 years now. They would sit down on the nearest bench and ask when the ride to town was coming, since it was too far to walk. When they were finished enjoying downtown, they would ask for a ride back to the marina, since the walk back to the funicular/elevator would be not only long, but slightly uphill as well.

If you are using a walker even a slight incline can be difficult.

In the end, Langley would financially have the worst of all possible worlds: the expense and maintenance of both a funicular/elevator and wheeled shuttle system.

SHARON EMERSON

Langley