Al0 - Wednesday, February 16, 1983 - North Shore News

inquiring
reporter

by
Ellsworth
Dickson

With the latest landslide and resulting
deaths at Lions Bay, there is renewed in-
terest in the proposed alternate route
through the Capilano watershed, where our
water comes from. A water filtration plant

would have to be built to keep our water
pure. ;

Today’s question is:
“‘Would you like to see an
alternative road through the

urged to
‘think big’

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mover tourist attraction
coincidental with EXPO 86.”

The streetcar.
“could become our
Signature,” much as_ the
Eiffel Tower is the signature
of Paris and the CN Tower is
Toronto’s signature.

It would be best to form a
land development. cor-
poration along with a private
developer or crown .cor-
poration, he said, because
such a body could put up the
capital to pay for Lower
Lonsdale’s redevelopment,
while the City would put up

system

Capilano_watershed?’’—

Skip Whitfield
North Vancouver

Would this alternate
watershed route be built
just to-keep rich skiers ©
happy? We still have to
maintain the old road
anyway since many
people hive on it. 1 would
like to know why houses
are allowed to be built in
areas along the Squamish
highway that are prone to
floods and shdes.

Chris Holt
North Vancouver

I would not like to see
our clean and pure water
damaged by _ people
driving through the
watershed. I would like to
see the Squamish
highway improved to the
point where it was not
dangerous anymore. The
alternate route and
purification plant would
cost a fortune. Why not
spend it fixing up the
existing road?

Philip Ratzlafi
North Vancouver

I would hke to see
an alternate highway
for a number of
reasons. There would

be new yobs created by
the construction. Also,
if there was a shde-tree

road to Whistler, 1
would help bolster
ther = economy The

water purthioation plant
ts a smatt pnce to pay
for a safe route

Jim Harrison
North Vancouver

only makes sense
lo build a sate
highway Creolopists
Say there is ter way to
stop othe  sfides The
added Cost of a wates
purhieation plant can

be handed

Vern Berrington
North Vancouver

Yes Lthink if ois tune
to Duh a sate alternate
highway even Ubeoaah
"1 ws throughs the
watcished Ny

prolbustioon preotbe nis san

be solved

the land.

Payne acknowledged that
some land development
corporations, most recently

that established by the
municipality of Whistler,
have failed, but he = said

others have succeeded.

-Fhe prospect-of a revived
Lower Lonsdale caused both
Payne and Aijderman Stella
Jo Dean to rhapsodize about
the area’s past and its
possible future. Lower
Lonsdale, they said, died in
1960 when the Second
Narrows Bridge was built
and the fernes stopped
running to Vancouver, and
only now, with Losndale

‘Quay and the Downtown

Revitalization Program
(financed by the province) is
it showing signs of life again.
“We are on the threshold
of a dream" Payne said.
Dean said there have been
many plans for bringing
Lower Lonsdale back to life.
including the idea of an
antique streetcar system, but
all failed because of a lack of
money to get them rolling.
Alderman Ralph Hall said
Payne was being a little
optumisic. No developer
would willingly provide the
amenities that Payne en-
visions for the area, he said
Hall said he was) con.
cerned council might be
setting up another level of
bureaucracy that would only
slow things down if it went
through with the
poration

COFr

But Dean said council had
to “think big.” and had been
thinking small for far
Jong.

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GRADE TWO students of
Upper Lynn School in North
Vancouver arrived back in
Vancouver from their
outdoor school experience
Friday about four hours later
than expected - because of
the mudslide which ripped

out the bridge over Alberta
Creek at Lions Bay.

The 62 children, with two
teachers and two student-
teachers returned from
North Van school beard’s
outdoor school north of

Squamish via a ferry service.

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Contrary to a report in the
Sunday News, published
after a call from an anxious
parent, telephone com-
munication to the outdoor
school was maintained, says
Upper Lynn Principal Tom
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