Concerned neighbours protest Linley Rd. closing as part of subdivision development
NANAIMO — A permanent road closure as part of the development on the eastern edge of the Linley Valley has neighbourhood residents up in arms.
Roughly 40 residents of the Linley Rd. area held signs at the current closed off intersection of Linley and Hammond Bay Rd. on Thursday morning. They opposed the road closure and how traffic coming into the area will be rerouted along smaller residential streets.
“All of the (traffic) would have to go down a road that’s right now only 15 feet wide,” protester Bonita McKay said of Miller Farm Rd., which will become the connector from Hammond Bay Rd. to new houses.
“It’s a very small residential street and it wasn’t designed to be a collector street for traffic.”