Off-ramp
alternatives

Dear Editor:

This summer coimmuters
from the North Shore will
face heavy traffic congestion
as a result of repair and main-
tenance to the Second
Narrows Bridge.

As if that wasn’t bad
enough, the Ministry of
Transportation and Highways
has decided to close the Keith
Road highway on-ramp.as
well..The ministry notice to
motorists ends with a gratu-
itous “encouragement to use
alternatives.” :

Encouragement? I don’t
really have a choice if I want
to go to work, even if it takes

an extra hour.

‘The two alternatives are
‘the Main Street on-ramp,
‘plready plugged up in rush-
hour, and the Lynn Valley on-
- ramp, dangerously short and
onacurve, . 0: ;

__~ However, if closure is the

only. way, let me suggest that

" the Keith Road off-ramp be”

closed instead.

Motorists affected should
be “encouraged” to use the
Main Street off-ramp, which
is nice and long. Two safe
right turns would take them to
their destination with very lit-
tle delay. This is a very rea-

. sonable compromise. It would

not disrupt rush hour traffic,

_and should be tried first.

Hartmut Schmid
North Vancouver

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Dear Editor: | read all of the letters that
you printed in the May 19 North Shore
News concerning the shooting of the
black bear in North Vancouver's
Westview,

Since we are obliged to kill an unpre-
dictable bear that comes in to our area,
perhaps we should refrain from shooting
bears in their own home wilderness area.
Our black bear population is in. rapid
decline because of legal hunting and the
rampant poaching for gall bladders and

other bear body parts. Please write,
phone or fax your local MLA, asking
that all bear hunting in B.C. be stopped,
before it is too late and we lose all of our
black bears.

A.M. (Tony) Webb

North Vancouver

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death of Dr. John Smith on Sept. 14, 1989. Born in
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me. They are ruining my teputation. Make her pay.”
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Mrs. Smith. No one reading the notice could know it ieferred
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