Editorial was right on

Your Sept. 6 editorial "Our highways grid should be tourist-friendly" scored a direct hit. Well done !

I would nominate Highway 7 as the worst example of all the faults mentioned in the editorial. For some reason, which passes all understanding, it is called Bovaird Drive where it goes through the urban wasteland of Brampton. Not only that, they have been digging it up ever since I moved into this area to make it four lanes, presumably to appease the all-powerful trucking lobby which appears to run this province, and of course the unspeakable "just-in-time delivery" merchants. No doubt Bovaird was a sterling fellow, but who gives a hoot? People just want to know what road they are on. And in any case, it's hardly a "drive." It's a main road!

I would not feel so strongly about this insane habit of re-naming well established things after someone nobody has heard of, except that it has seriously inconvenienced me on several occasions in the past.

I called CAA for assistance after a breakdown, but they never found me because of re-naming and re-numbering of roads of which I was unaware.

After a few unfortunate incidents I finally discovered that the Mississauga hospital had been re-named the William Ostler Health Centre, Trillium Campus, or some such gobbeldygook.

I have given up trying to tell visitors how to get to my place - I just tell them to tell the taxi driver to take them to Montanas where I will pick them up.

If this kind of asininity confuses someone who has lived here for 40 years, what on earth must it do to tourists?

John C. Tysoe

Cheltenham