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Letter: No B.C. bullet trains, eh

By Larry Weirather, Vancouver
Published: November 4, 2018, 6:00am

Recent talk of creating a bullet train route between Vancouver and Portland must halt. Vancouver, B.C., gangs would have easy access to Vancouver, Wash. We all know how criminally corrupt those northern high-tech, polite, friendly Vancouverites are. They drive cars, not enormous pickups. Un-American.

They universally use umbrellas when it rains. The losers. Even worse, they like their health-care system. We can’t tolerate that attitude down here. Who in their right mind would want Vancouver’s SkyTrain, or a bullet train in an earthquake zone, other than people in Japan and Vancouver? Can’t possibly work. Would be money down a rat hole. Vancouver, B.C.’s, light-rail system is responsible for much of its world-class economic growth because the train crosses bridges and ties communities together. We certainly wouldn’t want that, either.

These gangs might lower our standard of living with their excellent fresh oysters, prime beef, Fraser River cheeses, Okanogan chardonnay, and even the best gluten-free hamburger buns in the world. I would never use the train, so why would I want to share in the cost? Sound familiar?

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