Dear Editor,
As an older Islander, I love walking across the causeway and back: it’s a change from walking the Bowfest ground and Boardwalk. Yet walking has become more difficult with age and health problems and I absolutely need my car to take me down to the Cove, park, then walk from there. Park?
Have you tried it recently? The place is littered with No Parking signs - small Library lot: full; day parking lot: packed. Anywhere along Union or Cardena streets? Forbidden.
I risk the temporary pick-up zone for ferry riders. And of course, the situation will get much worse with the new Cove Commons: I fear it will be difficult for me to even get there, however much I support its creation.
And the proposed new parking lot on Miller Road will not help – it is just too far for me to walk from there. Parking should be allowed along Union and Cardena road, with a time limit.
I appeal to our Council and to my fellow Bowen Islanders not to ban walking seniors from the Cove. It is sad enough to see many of us leave for easier access to services and space on the mainland. But are we trying to create a seniors-free zone in the Cove?
Renate Williams
