Quail streets need snow route designation

Dear Editor:

Here we are four years later and I am still trying to have

Quail Run Drive and Capistrano Drive added to the Snow Route list. These are dangerous and slippery and are both very narrow at the top and difficult at the entry to Quail Ridge Drive.

I have been to City Hall, I have had a petition signed, I have watched the snow ploughs struggle to manoeuvre around the parked cars to clear these streets during a snow storm and on Dec. 30 as of 3:34 p.m., there was no yard waste pickup because of the conditions.

The cars parked on the road are mostly renters and not taxpaying owners. At one meeting with the public works department two years ago, I was told to get the Quail Ridge Association to request a snow route designation from the city for these two streets and it would be done.

I got onto the association last year, requested the president support that very important designation and was told no.

Why would that be? I was told that it was not in the interest of the association to have the area designated a snow route. I can only presume that somewhere there is a conflict of interest because on their new website the association asks residents not to park on the streets during snow clearing.

Regardless of communal politics or municipal politics, it is essentially a safety issue for those of us who live on these streets

Ask your snow plough operators and ask your garbage and yard waste drivers for their opinion and you will get your answer.

It is difficult to drive both up and down Quail Run Drive and Capistrano at the best of times because of cars parked on both sides of these roads. I have a document that shows how many vehicles were parked on Quail Run Drive alone during a twomonth period in 2018.

Here we are in almost 2021 and still no snow route designation. Please get off the fence and do the right thing. Your taxpayers’ safety and security should be a priority in snow storms.

Michael Henderson, Kelowna