To the Editor,
RE: Highway 4 still dangerous for drivers, Letters, July 17, 2024
We have used Highway 4 since the late 1950s, when going to the West Coast we had to use the switchback. Now that was something to cry about.
(The switchbacks were around Sproat Lake, included hairpin turns and gained 580 metres of elevation with no barriers on the side of the road, according to the Ucluelet and Area Historical Society. The switchbacks were removed when paving of the highway to the West Coast was completed in 1972. — ed.)
If you hold yourself on the speed limits it brings you safely from point A to point B.
We like the beautiful road zigzagging through the peaceful surroundings. It's a little paradise left in this crazy world. That's why we live in the Alberni Valley.
If I wanted to join the speed maniacs I would have moved to the Lower Mainland. So like it or leave it.
G. Deboer,
Port Alberni
