Dear Editor,
Langley Township councillors clearly have too much time on their hands and far too much of our money to spend.
In their wisdom and neglecting to seek council from others who possibly might have had constructive input that would have been useful, they proceeded at considerable expense, to create a “duck pond” beside Fraser Highway between 208th and 216th Streets.
The problem was not with the duck pond per se but with its location. You see it is right across the road from the Langley Regional Airport and under the flight path of a busy runway.
So what you say? Well, an aircraft departing or landing on that runway would eventually have a bird strike with a duck or a Canada goose. This happening would destroy a light aircraft and could cost lives.
Some how those who do know better got to council and explained these facts to them. Then, council rather than filling in the pond and eliminating the hazard entirely, instead chose to bedeck the pond with wires and streamers to deter the birds from the hazard, they, council had created in the first place.
My question is: What has this error in judgement cost Township taxpayers – first to create the thing and secondly to apply this apparent “lipstick on a pig.”
Mike Davenport, Langley City
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