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Expedite road work
Road work in London is beyond out of control this year. Slow and delayed work is ongoing in every area of the city. Getting around is slow, time consuming and frustrating.
Similar concerns have been raised in Toronto about the slow pace of work on the Gardiner expressway. But Toronto has a plan to accelerate the work to get the project completed faster with less impacts on drivers and neighbourhoods.
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London should copy the Toronto plan before it engages in any more major work, such as more BRT work and obviously the Wharncliffe Road rail overpass. That project, if started with so much other city road interruption, would be careless.
Develop a plan that speeds up the work and lessens the time and inconvenience of prolonged detours that will occur.
We can do better, if we want.
Robert Webb, London
Grants a frill
The letter to the editor Cut the big stuff (July 11) by John Fracasso is disrespectful to Coun. Shawn Lewis.
It is people, not money, which improves neighbourhoods.
The neighbourhood decision-making grants are a feel-good project, a frill if you will.
It isn’t one little tax-funded community project that is the problem, it is the accumulation of little projects that is at issue.
It is like buying a coffee every day and wondering why you have no money for food.
I do agree there are big-ticket items, such as bike lanes, that only benefit a fraction of the people and disadvantage the majority.
But for Fracasso to suggest Lewis should be ashamed because Lewis didn’t vote to give Fracasso what he wanted, is, well, shameful.
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Sandra Barker, London
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Great service
I would like to tip my hat to the services provided by the Canadian passport office in the Cherryhill Village Mall.
I entered the mall July 9 at exactly 12:30 p.m. to renew passports for me and my wife. I left the mall at 2:30 p.m. It may have taken two hours to process our renewal applications, but all employees were actively engaged while I was there and I was served by two very friendly, professional employees who made the overall experience more than acceptable. And the icing on the cake occurred when we received our passports by registered mail July 12.
Robert Neill, London
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Since Ontario has specialized, convenient and accessible LCBO stores where one can buy every desired alcoholic beverage they desire, I fail to understand why Premier Doug Ford would expand alcohol sales to convenience stores and other venues.
Making alcoholic beverages available in convenience stores will increase drinking and driving and crime. What is Doug Ford thinking? Is he getting a reward for this action?
Genevieve Grech, London
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