Dear Edtior
Once again, I am writing to inform readers of the dreadful state of Delorme Drive. Year after year, users — farmers, transport drivers, first responders, First Nations residents, school buses — take their lives into their hands when using this road. This short piece of road off Highway 4, is a disgrace with broken pavement, broken speed bumps, huge pot holes, sloping grade and loose gravel.
Every day we see near misses as drivers drive on the left trying to avoid damaging their vehicles, speed to emergencies while trying to avoid collisions and seeking respite from the road by driving on the sloping grade. As the school bus goes by we can see only its roof as it tries to avoid the massive holes, almost landing in the ditch.
We pay our taxes, but to no avail.
Communication 2014-486 from the minister of Government Relations clearly places the responsibility for this horror on the Cochin town council. The council, as communicated during a public hearing May 16, blames the Saskatchewan government and has placed a traffic counter on Delorme Drive to force the government to recognize the traffic load and do something about it. In the meantime, we are caught in the middle.
Will a school bus collision resulting in the deaths and injury of children be the only way this public health hazard will ever be addressed?
To me, it is way too high a price to pay for in-fighting between jurisdictions.
Edouard Trippe De Roche
Cochin
