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Highway 99 needs immediate, temporary solutions

It seems I need to reiterate that the proposed use of traffic cones and manually operated traffic lights to reduce congestion on Highway 99 on the busy days is only a temporary solution. What might follow that will likely involve transit solutions, and maybe reduced car travel. Last week’s letter on the issue (“How to best optimize usage of Highway 99?” Pique, March 10) needs a contrarian view. Somebody’s “research” may show that traffic congestion does not increase greenhouse gases, but one merely needs to consider the physics of energy consumption per time, rather than kilometre/ litre, to see that, yes, emissions go up with gridlock. We are likely to see an increase in car traffic as EV numbers increase, and may see a decrease in transit, but this does not mitigate or change the argument for an immediate and temporary solution to what is going on now.

We have a two-lane highway through town because a previous council thought this form of social engineering would reduce the number of cars coming to Whistler. One could ask how well this is working. Providing bike lanes and encouraging walking from Function to Whistler for that period when the highway is snowcovered will, in my view, be as ineffective, and

I ask if any reader views the bike rider with skis on the side as a way to get the majority of skiers to the hill.

Al Whitney // Whistler

Rainbow Park construction should take place in the fall

This letter was sent to Whistler’s mayor and council and shared with Pique.

First, I want to thank you for listening to

Whistler residents who are concerned about the construction involved with the Rainbow Park project, planned for either this summer into fall 2023, or this fall into spring 2024.

My main concern is the choice of seasons to start the work of redevelopment versus the attendance in other parks, and mainly Lost Lake Park.

For a few years, I have lived just at the entrance of Lost Lake Park, and I frequent it every day because I love swimming and biking.

Since COVID, I have noticed a very large increase [in visitation to Lost Lake], last summer being the worst year. I saw people invading places on the edge of the lake that were never frequented before. I also discovered a place where people lit fires, and I had to inform the bylaw department. Moreover, the dog beach has been adopted by several young people to party, not to mention the nudie dock and the warming hut.

There is hardly any surveillance around the lake, apart from a very few bylaw officers who ride their bikes on the Valley Trail.

If you close Rainbow Park this summer, imagine the crowds that will head to Lost Lake… Did you think about something to control this huge amount of visitors who will invade Lost Lake, which is a very small lake already suffering from overcrowding and pollution?

If you close Rainbow Park this summer, it will cause a lot of damage to all the other parks and lakes.

Thank you for considering my request to

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1 BED I 1 BATH I 537 SQFT Whistler Upper Village postpone the date for the Rainbow Park project to the fall.

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Hélène Castonguay // Whistler

Could Whistler Racket Club move to Spruce Grove?

The obvious choice for a new location for the Whistler Racket Club is at Spruce Grove next to the netball courts.

[As the Resort Municipality of Whistler rezones the Northlands], the valuable space in the village for housing has priority over a sport that can relocate easily.

Just the space above the courts is another place seniors, or the low-income families that run this town, could live.

I sympathize with the Whistler Racket Club. I love going there, and some of my best meals have been over fireworks in the village—find another venue to let the space you want for your sport be occupied by hard-working locals for generations.

Michael Deschenes // Whistler ■