Dear Editor,
Interestingly enough in this 1824 bicentennial year marking the Hudson Bay Company seminal expedition that would change southern B.C. forever, Portage Park does not have a decent landing river shoreline spot where people can safely get on and off the Nicomekl River, with a small kayak for instance.
Couldn't the muddy and steep area underneath the 203rd Street bridge in the immediate vicinity of Portage Park be somewhat modestly revised so that it can serve outdoors keeners prepared to venture west on the Nicomekl and explore this wonderful greenbelt?
It is currently a scramble unknown to most, other than a few homeless sheltering there at times.
How come river water access was possible 200 years ago with four boats carrying 10 adventurers each but can't be done anymore?
What is the City so afraid of: its lawyers, its taxpayers, its environmentalists, its history, or meaningful changes on an important heritage waterway?
Or perhaps just plain urban decay?
Réjean Beaulieu, Vancouver

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