(The following is a letter that was sent to Mayor Roy Ludwig and the members of city council.)
The Editor:
I come again to complain to you about matters concerning our senior citizens.
Again, our city planners are not using common sense in their planning decisions. When Spectra Place was built, us seniors lost all the parking spaces we had at the back of the comp. Again, when you set up the fence between the exhibition grounds and the fire lane, you failed to take in that you were effectively denying us access to parking beside the Wylie-Mitchell Building. You know that several times we tried to ask the Exhibition Association to allow a gate to be set up and allow us access to this area again, only to be rebuffed (by the Exhibition Association) each time without mercy.
It was brought up to your attention later to set up more handicap spaces in the parking lot close to the west entrance of the complex. This was finally given some attention and several spaces were made available for this purpose.
But now, to add insult to injury, with all these useless expensive concrete curbs (good taxpayer money definitely wasted) you built on the parking lot, you went and built a large concrete curbed area where the closest three parking spaces to the main entrance were situated, taking away needed spaces for our seniors.
Where in the hell are we senior citizens (many of us handicapped) going to end up finding suitable parking when we go to the complex or the senior citizens centre? This obstruction needs to be pulled down now and these three handicap spaces restored to our good use.
To be blunt, it is past time for you decision-making people to wake up and consider the implications before you make your moves. Using common sense, it seems, is not one of your favourite ideas.
On behalf of all our senior citizens of this city,
Bert Parent,
Estevan
