Dear Editor,
A true test of livability in any region dotted with urban settlement – such as Haida Gwaii – is the amenity of affordable, accessible and reliable public transportation. This place gets a mark of D-, despite the fact of multimillennial habitation and one and a half centuries of European-style infrastructural build-up.
It hurts to live in a milieu where it’s an unending struggle to travel between one community and the next – as someone who doesn’t operate a motor vehicle and in fact, has depended on public transportation over six decades. Haida Gwaii has a markedly diminished air about it – despite its “greener-than-thou” attitude. Surely four thousand plus souls deserve a “B.C. Transit” franchise?
How ‘bout it?
Rèal Saint Laurent
Mennonite colony
