for serious accidents when the

WEST Vancouver residents have deluged the News dur-
ing the past year with letters on the topic of Horseshoe
Bay and the “doings of BC Ferry Corp. And we're not
just talking, the fast ferry debacle here. News thar BC
Ferries was planning an upgrade of its terminal as well
as the construction of a new maintenance facility high-
lighted once again the ongoing woes local residents face
with traffic and parking and a provincial behemoth
unused to meaningful public consultation. Locals are
tired of the traffic problems in the tiny bay and highway
commuters to Squamish and beyond fear the potential
‘Trans Canada Highway is turned into an overflow park-

ing lot. Forget further expansion (last projected at $12 million) and use the money to

move some or all of the terminal to a new, purpose-built site goes the a

such a move might affect the

ent. How
Bay’s commerce has not been formally studied. Neither

have other possible sites. Why not? It’s time for an independent study.

NORTH SHORE DEMOGRAPHICS

Horseshoe Bay
Dundarave/Ambleside
British Properties
Norgate/Pemberton Heights

NO NO DON'T
OPINION KNOW

18% 14% 2%

24% 2

14%

26%

YES
66%
45%
70%

52% 21%

Capilano/Delbrook Fighlands

Lower Lonsdale
Central and Upper Lonsdale
Lynn Valicy

Biucridge/Deep Cove

COMBINED AVERAGE ...

24%

Alison Andresen

North Vancouver

Yes, ] suppose it has. We
used to go over there, but
now we avoid the place
unless we are actually using,
the ferries.

Liz O’Connor

North Vancouver

They will soon, but I don’t
know where else they'll put
it (the ferry terminal). | used
to go over there a lot but Pil
avoid Fridavs and Sundays
now.

Gloria Haxton

North Vancouver

Yes. I feel sorry for the peo-
ple who live there now. The
original residents moved to
a really nice place. Now the
congestion is terrible with
cars and lack of parking, the
long weekends especialiy.

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A device designed to allo
physically disabled people”
the chance to spend time in
the wilderness was unveiled
and demonstrated 2x
Cypress Mountain Aug. 9.

The Trailrider is essentially
a wheelbarrow with two han-
dies on both ends and a com-
fortable seat in the middle.

The B.C... Mobility
Opportunities Society (BC
MOS) provides recreational
activities for people sig-
nificant. physical disabilities.
BC MOS volunteers designed
and constructed a Trailrider
prototype last year.

Six Trailriders were subse-
quently built for a BC MOS
event this weekend in. the
Skagit Valley.

Access Chailenge will sce
teams oof five members,
including one with a sign i
cant disability, compete in a
60-kilometre wilderness
adventure that will sce an ele-
vation gain of up to 1,200
metres.

Each team must be self-
sufficient.

Among the goals of the
event: develop self-confi-
dence and self-esteem
through challenging physical
activity; prove that access for
people with disabilities does
not have to involve the physi-

. cal alteration of the natural

environment; provide the
opportunity for everyone to
enjoy the beauty of the
wilderness.

SHANNON Jones, left to right, Cheryi Hutcheson
device that brings together able bodied arid pnysically disabled people for wilderness experiences.

chair) and Collesn McCain demonstrate the Traiizider, a

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