Open houses for the Second round of Riverview consultations — with the theme “creating goals” — will be held Saturday, May 24 from 2 to 6 p.m. at Dogwood Pavilion in Coquitlam ( find Dogwood Pavilion using a Goole Earth kml file )
and
Wednesday, May 28 from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Kyle Centre in Port Moody. ( find Kyle Centre using a Google Earth kml file )
Further open houses are slated for September and December. For more information, visit renewingriverview
Letters to the editor: Just reopen Riverview
Also somewhat related to Riverview, but in Colony Farm: Keep pipe out of park
UPDATE: The Renewingriverview folk finally posted the next Second round of dates and information gathering opportunities on their website HERE
Also the First round of public consultation summary has finally been released, download the PDF of it.
And I transcribed this letter to the editor and place it here since it is pertinent. ( sadly all to frequently not all news, letters, etc makes it into the online electronic side of the news industry.)
The Editor,
Re. “Bailey bridge
battle brewing” (The Tri-City News, April 9) and “Hallway medicine?” (April
11).
The old
expression “beating your head against a brick wall” came to mind as I contemplated
the ongoing dispute between Coquitlam and New Westminster over the Band-Aid
Bailey bridge at Braid Street.
It seems the
Royal City believes it has some royal prerogative to unilaterally frustrate
regional transportation issues despite the fact that it lost out to Victoria
when the provincial capital was moved there 150 years ago. Such quaint and parochial
delusions of importance, or the converse claim that poor little New Westminster
is bullied by its larger neighbours, just don’t cut it.
This
delusion persists despite the royal tour by New West city councillors of
neighbouring councils pleading the case for their version of a Pattullo Bridge
opt ion. (This tour bypassed Coquitlam council, perhaps because New West rightly
believed its reception here would be even worse than the negative reactions
they received in Port Coquitlam, Burnaby and Surrey.)
There are
other regional problems and initiatives that may find solutions in a rethink
outside of the box in which New Westminster likes to reside. One deleterious
consequence of its failure to think regionally is the very real threat of constricted
access to Royal Columbian Hospital, the only regional piece of infrastructure
that New Westminster embraces. But I don’t think that even Port Moody’s push
for expansion of Eagle Ridge Hospital’s emergency room offer anything but a
stop-gap measure to ensure health, safety and timely services outside of New
Westminster.
Perhaps it
is time to push for a larger regional hospital presence outside of the Kingdom
of New Westminster. It seems to me the Riverview Hospital site may present an
alternative to the transportation grid-locked Royal Columbian Hospital. The
Riverview site is well-served by transportation corridors, the site is
available and money designated for a Royal Columbian expansion could be
diverted to the benefit of all.
E.C. Eddy Coquitlam
