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down just) after 7 am.
Monday at the entrance to
Stanley Park and it wasn't
und! five hours fater that the
traffic situation was back to
normal on the Lions Gate
and Second Narrows bridges
and on the North Share
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NORTH SHORE commuters found their way to

wires Monday morning

and the resulting traffic jam is being described as

the Greater Vancouver

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feed them,

With the Lions Gate
Bridue virtually blocked by
the traffie bucked up by the
downed wires, commuters
found themselves fitcing long
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ity Monday morning

‘Traffic was snarled-on bo

iwice the average number of
drivers tried to make their
wity into the city by the Se-
cond Narrows Bridge.

West Vancouver Police
were kept busy throughout
the moraing attempting to
control and redirect traffic
and facing the ire of more
than a few frayed tempers.

The situation was bad
throughout the usual morn-
ing rush hour period with
traffic backed up as far as
five miles from the Lions
Gate Bridge. By 10 a.m., al

which tine the tush hour is
usually aver, the line-up of
cars sul stretghed from the
bridge access to Keith Road
at Taylor Way.

Traffic was also heavy and
slow-moving on Murine
Drive through West and
North Vancouver and to the
aceess roads teading to the
Second Narrow Bridges.
Police say that it was noon
before most of the traffic
problems had been cleared
and the situation was begin-
ning to return to normal.