6 - Sunday, August 7,

1988 - North Shore News

INSIGHTS

srazy transit plan
. Van at risk

SIGN THE S.0.B. PETITION (over 8,000 of your North
Van neighbors already have) if you don’t want to be late
for work or trapped in a possible disaster area.

puts

The cheeky acronym is the sym-
bol of the North Van Committee
to Save Our Buses which is
fighting the B.C. Transit proposal
to garage North Van buses in
Burnaby. This bureaucratic
brainwave would mean that any
lengthy accident or tie-up in the
early morning on the Second Nar-
rows, around the PNE or along
the Cassiar Corridor could leave
North Van with no transit service
at all, And what if a major en-

vironmental or other catastrophe,
demanding mass evacuation,
strikes during the night?

B.C. Transit claims the move
will save it $565,000 annually. But
Fred MeCormack of the Transil
Union (which has presumably
done its homework) puts the extra
travel time, maintenance and fuel
costs of moving the whole fleet
back and forth daily across the
{Inlet ata minimum of $300,000 a
year. Moreover, he says, the new

Lloyd Avenue facility used by
West Van Blue Buses could easily
garage and maintain all North
Van buses as well — and that’s
the obvious place where they
should go to bed cach night.

The crazy B.C. Transit plan
could only have been dreamed up
by paper-pushers completely
divorced from the real world. But
unless the voice of North Van bus
riders rises (oO a mighty roar,
thar’s what they’re going to be
stuck with.

EXPLORING CAMPUS life be-

4S phote Tom Burley

S.0.B. TIME RUNNING OUT...Fred McCormack collects signatures at Capilano Mall wu the ‘Save Our
Buses’’ petition protesting threatened night-time garaging of Nosth Van buses in Burnaby.

Peace and quiet

OISE BYLAWS can be inconvenient and dif-

ficult to enforce, but it is time West Vancouver

caught up with the rest of Greater Vancouver
and started protecting the peace and quiet cherished by
its citizenry.

It may have been fate coming, but West Van-
couverites are experiencing a development beom with
all the accompanying annoyances, including the
nerve-shattering sounds of blasting and drilling.

These noises, which can occur without warning,
from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., Monday through Saturday,
are disturbing not only those who are home during the
day, but those looking forward to some respite from
the workaday racket of the city. Add this to the
everyday sounds of highway traffic, trucks and buses,
radios and lawn mowers and you have a recipe for
madness. Loud and continual noises have a well-
documented, negative effect on the physical and men-
tal well being of human beings.

North Yancouver City and District, and several
other municipalities, have more complete bylaws which
define ‘‘quiet’’ and ‘‘active’’ areas, and prescribe
decibel limits for daytime and nighttime hours. West
Vancouver seems to be ready for {hese kinds of restric-
tions.

This will cause difficulties for developers and con-
tractors, which may be reflected in higher costs of ac-
commodation and workspace; but a balance must be
reached between the needs of builders, who are
motivated by profit, and residents of this hard-working
community who deserve the restful effects of a few
quiet hours.

fore making a final post-secon-
dary education decision is Eugene
Chung of Sentinel. He’s one of
this year’s more than 800 high
school students from 51 countries
chosen for an imaginative
“Summer College’ program at
New York’s Cornell University.
For six weeks they enrol in regular
university courses alongside col-
lege students, live in dormitories
and sample all-round campus life,
as well as checking out career op-
portunities. On returning home,
they have a pretty good idea of
what they want — or DON'T
want — to do next!

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WRAP UP: Chase the moths
from the tuxes and taffeta for the
Aug. 17 black-tie gala evening and
dance at West Var Seniors Centre,
which includes (all for $7.50)
champagne, canapes and a world
premiere by the Anna Wyman
Dance Theatre prior to its ap-
pearance at Australia's Expo 88
... Hostessing what may well be
the most popular single item at
next month's Coho Festival — the
non-stop salmon barbecue on the
Fectival Sunday in Ambleside
Park — is West Van Chamber of
Commerce's Ist veepce, Patricia
Treadwell. The fun and action-

filled late summer celebration runs

this year from Sept. 6 through
Sept. 11... Special first anniver-
sary greetings tomorrow, Aug. 8,
to North Van’s Richard and
Noelle Rutledge — Richard being
the 1986 suitor-of-the-year who
stood a startled TV news crew on
its ear at Expo (not to mention his

wage

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future bride). Picked es ‘VIPs of
the day’’ while touring the BCTV
Pavilion, the two were doing a
short impromptu broadcast when,
with no warning and cameras roll-
ing, Richard whipped out a ring
and proposed to Noelle. The
never-before scene was highlighted
on both newscasts that evening ...
Also tomorrow in North Van,
happy 35th anniversary ‘o Tony
and Betty Pritchard ... And many
happy returns of the day to
Kiwanian John Treijs.

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WRIGHT OR WRONG —
Famous last words for August
vacationers: ‘‘So what if itis a
classy restaurant? They wear swim
things here everywhere. Besides,
what are they gonna do? Throw
us out?" @

RETNA ENE

EUGENE CHUNG. ...pre-testing
campus life.

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Barrett Fisher
Noel Wright
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