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The provinee has specitied

the number and length of

bridge closures. Night clo-
sures will be allowed from 8
p.m. to 6 a.m Sunday through
Thursday and 10 p.m. to 6
a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays.

Up to four weekend clo-
sures will be permitted to
allow the winning contractor
to perform work that can’t be
done at night. Weekend clo-
sures will last 36 hours and
will occur from 10 p.m. Friday
until 6 am. Monday.
Weekend closures will not
take place on holiday long
weekends.

But said West Vancouver
Chamber of Comnierce presi-
dent John Clark, “To go

folly. We need a

North Shore
businesses, restaurants in par-
ticular, will be clobbered by
the closures.

fer the timing of bridge
construction closures remains
uncertain.

Contract bids were to be
accepted until Jan. That
deadline has moved to Feb, 9.
According to Ian Druce, com-
munications officer with the
Lions Gate Project, the shift
came at the request of bridge
contract bidders.

“Three to four companics
asked for this. In order to get
good bids, we'll do that,”
Druce said.

Depending on the sched-
ules submitted by the bidders,
closures could begin as carly
as September and as fate as
February 2000, he added.

Said West Vanconver-
Capilano Liberal MLA Jeremy

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Dalton. “In October ‘98 they
said Jan. 7 as the clo sing date
for bids and now it's eb, 9,

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has been
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er Harry Lali
the — province
planned to issue a request for
proposals in the summer,
award =the contract in
December, carry out the work
in 1999 and complete the job
by 2000.
The West
Chamber — of

project
dogged b

Vancouver
Commerce,

meanwhile, is awaiting the
results of a Marktrend
Research Inc. survey of public
opinion on the bridge project

“The (bid deadline) delay
is fine from our standpoint,”
said Clark

He expects to have some
preliminary results of the
chamber-funded survey back
this wee

Approximately 1,300
GVRD residents were gener-
ally asked:
whether they favoured the
rehabilitation project as con-
templated;

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@ whether they favoured 3
different solution, for example
a tunnel: bridge combination
with a toll;

whe they rele the public
had been adequately informed
of the bridge proj t.

Said Clark, “If the pudlic
says, ‘West Van chamber burt
out,” we will) Phere are no
bulldo: out yer or blow
torches on the bridge. There's
a hope we can turn’ this
around and do this properh
before we (North Shore bu

ssses and) commuters) are
decimated.”

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