Editor:
In an area starting with City in the Park and winding down Southpoint Drive, there must be at least 5,000 taxpayers.
With such density, you would think that the city would provide a decent standard of service.
The taxes paid would make you think that the streets could be paved in gold. We wish.
On Sandborne Avenue, where the sidewalks were installed in the mid-1980s, the city's current efforts to maintain a surface that is safe to walk on is totally pathetic. Boulevard trees that the city installed, one would assume, shortly after the sidewalks were placed, have now grown huge and their big roots under the sidewalks have almost turned the walkways into a roller coaster.
In an effort to respond to what one would assume were complaints, they came out with asphalt and used it to pave the worst hill and ground down other edges where sidewalk sections had been lifted.
Come on Burnaby, for the taxes we all pay, we deserve better than this.
Terry Smith, Burnaby
