I applaud the city of Vancouver for their green transit initiatives and efforts to make downtown more walkable (“Vancouver approves final design of Main Street Promise, focusing on ‘moving people and not vehicles,’ ” The Columbian, Oct. 25). This vision is at the heart of all great cities across the world.
Unfortunately missing in this plan is access. As the purpose is to reduce car traffic, how will Clark County residents outside of downtown easily enjoy and take advantage of this area?
I have every confidence that the city of Vancouver will rise to this challenge. I expect that whenever the chance to link light rail over the new I-5 Bridge will present itself, the city will respond with needed infrastructure, doubling as additional means of accessing the newly designed downtown area from all over the city.
Unfortunately, but predictably, our Clark County councilors are again showing no foresight or initiative in addressing the issues our children and grandchildren will face. What do we hear from them on these issues — either crickets or resistance. They seem to prefer to bury their heads in the sand and hope nothing will change. I am hoping that most of those who fill council seats will change.
