Editor: I am compelled to reply to Linda Nash鈥檚 letter to the 91原创 Times, June 28.

To say that there was no bullying at the public open house regarding the transportation routes is patently untruthful.

The TOL staff, TOL councillor and other independent witnesses saw groups of people from the Walnut Grove protest group berate and loudly accuse TOL staff of being corrupt and other negativities.

A large group (more than two) aggressively approached unsuspecting people. They were people who were simply at the public event to look at the proposals, not to engage with protesters.

The TOL staffer who鈥漧ooked sickly鈥� after the meeting wasn鈥檛 dealing with a back issue. The person had been verbally abused during the meeting by the protestors.

The benefit of a truck route is that the roadway is maintained and funded by the MOT. The effect of denying a truck route a few years ago is evident on 208 Street, which now is a mostly two lane, pot holed, heavily traveled incomplete road and it will remain incomplete until each developer develops their individual sections.

鈥淗onouring health and safety and working together for the greater good,鈥� is a goal for the whole TOL to embrace, but that also means access to goods and services, which does involve trucks.

If Walnut Grove residents do not want groceries, appliances, service trucks, fire trucks, moving trucks in their area, then they will have to ban them from entering their neighborhoods 鈥� and do without their services 鈥� which is what they are essentially trying to do north of Highway 1.

G. Lambert,

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