All - Wednesday, November 2, 1983 - North Shore News

Es election countdown

Hall to battle
bus cutbacks

BUS SERVICE CUTS in
North Vancouver are a key
issue for City Alderman
Ralph Hall who ts seeking a
fourth term on City council
in the November 19 election.

He has pledged to continue
his fight against threatened
major reductions in the
service.

‘‘What B.C. Transit has in
mind is less service for higher
fares. If they succeed in im-
plementing what they refer to
as service ‘adjustments,’ they
will make it much less conve-
nient for people to use the
buses, ridership will go down
and that most likely would
lead to more cuts in service,’”’
he charges.

Hall said a major problem
is that no one appears to real-
ly want to operate a decent
transit service because of
financial pressures.

‘‘B.C. Transit people seem
to run the service in a totally
negative fashion. Budgetary
considerations seem to be
paramount. Instead of pro-
moting greater ridership, it’s
chop, chop, chop.

“If City Council ap-
proached its fire protection
and policing services in the
same manner, we would be

run out of town,’’ he
declared.
‘‘There is a tremendous

amount of residential con-
struction going on, yet
several sections of the City
are virtually without bus ser-
vice, and many more people
will be greatly inconvenienc-

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with removing service from
St. George’s and Chesterfield
Avenues.”’

Hall said he believes that
B.C. Transit nvust rethink its
proposed North Van City ad-
justments. ‘‘Cutbacks = re-
quire the approval of the
Lower Mainland Transit
Commission,’’ he said.“The
only North Shore member is
Mayor Dernck Humphreys
of West Vancouver and I’m
not sure how sympathetic he
might be to North Van’s
needs.’’

**Certainly, the two North
Van members of the
legislature, Jack Davis and
Angus Ree need to step in
right away before great
damage is done to North

Vancouver,’” Hall added.

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Rowntree concentrates on
cost- saving measures

**}T WOULD LIKE a further
two years to help finish some
of the important issues facing
council in the new year,”’
says Gordon Rowntree who
is running for a second term
as West Vancouver alderman
in the November 19 election.

Among other assignments
he has undertaken since first
being elected in 1981,
Rowntree lays special em-
phasis on his contribution to
keeping a tight rein’ on
municipal spending — in par-
ticular, council’s implemen-
tation of restraint programs
to save expenditures and thus
control taxes.

**These money-saving pro-
grams,’’ he says, *‘provided a
total minimum annual saving
of $503,000°" in the current
year. The economies ranged
all the way from contracting
out garbage collection at an
annual saving of $200,000 to
improved salt spreaders on
trucks, which cut costs by
$270 per vehicle.

With council now starting
its deliberations on the 1984
budget, he promises more of
the same.

A West Van resident and
active community worker for
30 years, Rowntree is past-
president of a homeowners’
association, a former Library

trustee and a founding

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daughter are graduates of
West Van schools and UBC.

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