Steller's Jays #1, by Anne Hansen (30" x 24")
Dear Mayor Fortin and Councillors:
I just read in the Times Colonist that you are considering measures to reduce the number of cars in Beacon Hill Park.
Fantastic!
I am taking the liberty of quoting American author Edward Abbey, whose sentiments I share:
“No more cars in national parks. Let the people walk. Or ride horses, bicycles, mules, wild pigs — anything — but keep the automobiles and the motorcycles and all their motorized relatives out. We have agreed not to drive our automobiles into cathedrals, concert halls, art museums, legislative assemblies, private bedrooms and the other sanctums of our culture; we should treat our national parks with the same deference, for they, too, are holy places.”
Beacon Hill isn’t a national park, but it’s just as precious as Jasper, for example. Public policy already accommodates and glorifies the private automobile to an absurd level. It’s time to boot them out of our beautiful parks!
Anne Hansen
