Dear editor:

I am in agreement with Peter Babcock's criticism of the proposed gateway at Queen and Mississagua streets (letter, “Proposed gateway is ugly and corporate-looking,” June 10).

Why put up a 40-foot masonry wall with the name Niagara-on-the-Lake on it? Surely visitors will have known what town they were in since they crossed its border 20 kilometres previously on Highway 55.

And why erect a 25-foot high obelisk representing the lighthouse at Mississauga Point when there are two historic lighthouses on the Niagara River?

I do agree with the proposed three-way stop signs at the intersection. The amount of time I have spent waiting on the Queen Street sidewalk to cross Mississagua, as a steady stream of vehicles coming from the direction of “downtown” turned left, is incalculable.

Surely the money allocated to improve this intersection could be better used by placing a 40-foot long garden of flowering shrubs at the end of Mississagua Street rather than building the currently proposed “gateway.”

Elizabeth Masson
NOTL