'Run it through Alma'

Dear Editor:

An open letter to Wellington County engineer Don Kudo.

After a close reading of the article that appeared in the Wellington Advertiser on Feb. 17 and going to multiple documentations available on your website, I was shocked by your lack of candour and insensitivity to the citizens of Alma.

Your study has resolved that a “widening of Wellington Road 7 and improvements to the bridge structure on Wellington Road 7 would potentially resolve the traffic volume and truck issues on Highway 6.” (Alternative 1: Wellington Rd 17 / Wellington Rd 7 bypass Dec. 2021-20-3297)

In layman’s terms, take the unwanted, polluting, noisy truck traffic from Fergus and run it through the hamlet of Alma.

Picture, for a moment, a child going to school, standing at the curb, only 13cm from a set of crushing tires with a sleepy driver and poor visibility at the intersection of Wellington Roads 7 and 17.

If that is your solution to this frightening scenario, it truly undermines the credibility of your profession. I have not received one response to my previous concerns and letters to you or your planning department, nor have they addressed this error in your plan.

Is that how a democracy works?

Jacobus deBock, Alma