Kelowna Construction

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Reducing the number of immigrants or TFW’s doesn’t make a population decline. It would slow it, but not decrease it. Unless we’re deporting.

The fact that Kelowna doesn’t have any jobs, or any big industry other than wine could be solved by making the region more accessible to outside markets. One bridge that funnels all truck traffic thru an urban centre with a 50km hr speed limit doesn’t help. Adding a second bridge with a bypass connecting the industrial parks north of town to the Westside of Okanagan Lake certainly would. Like I said there is no intermodal connection to the Okanagan. Everything is trucked in and out. If the region wants to grow and prosper and add jobs, this needs to be addressed. Highway 97 and the bridge is already at max capacity, and my MIL just got denied a job in west Kelowna (she lives in Rutland and on EI, which runs out next month) because she lives on the other side of the bridge and every day there is an issue. This region can’t function this way much longer.

But like I said, I’m just beating a dead horse here. We, who live in Kelowna, know this already.