Category: Life in Port Moody

Woohoo! It looks like the awful truth is finally sinking in and Port Moody City Council has accepted the fact that the much ballyhooed Evergreen Line may not materialize as promised. Council is considering restricting growth along the proposed line fearing the light rail won't be built for quite some time. Mayor Trasolini was quoted in The Vancouver Sun today saying "The OCP has to reflect the fact that we can't keep growing. The population in the last 15 years has doubled...we're being criticized for growing too much without infrastructure in place." Well DUH! I've been saying that since all the new building started along Murray...Suter Brook, Klahanie etc. We still have only two ways in or out of our city and there's far too many people living in our…

It looks like those wild and crazy TransLink folks have pulled the plug on the much ballyhooed Evergreen Line and I for one am heaving a sigh of relief. Regional transportation commissioner Martin Crilly announced the decision based on the simple fact that it costs too much money. Gee...I could have told them that. I would have also told them how my nice, quiet little town would be turned upside down by the influx of thieves and drug pushers that would use the system to peddle their wares and steal from our homes and businesses. This isn't rocket science but the reasoning seems to be 'Anything in the name of development and expansion'. I don't agree with this theory and, as a Port Moody resident I'm glad the Evergreen Line…

You know you're in a small town when a resident accidently drops her keys in a roadside drain and it attracts a larger crowd than a shuttle launch. Everyone was friendly, everyone tried to help, no cars were stolen and I didn't hear a single gun shot. There's a real difference between Port Moody and Whalley and this one proves it. My wife and I were on our way into Thrifty Foods in Suter Brook when I noticed a small group collected around a roadside drain and a woman and man on their knees fishing around with a plumbers snake. I stopped to find out what was up and discovered that the poor woman had dropped her car/home/work keys into the water drain and the gentleman with the plumbers snake…