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NORTH SHORE residents who fear the loss of their bus
depot to Burnaby will mean an increase in delays in service
had that point brought home to them Tuesday when a burst
water main near the Second Narrows Bridge resulted in the
North Shore’s worst traffic jam this year.

Fred McCormack, president of
the Independent Canadian Transit
Union Local 1, has said an acci-
dent on the bridge ‘‘could poten-
tially wipe out service long enough
to have the whole town late for
work,’’ if buses are made to travel
from Burnaby to the North Shore.

Tuesday’s slowdown prompted
McCormack to once more speak
out against B.C. Transit’s con-
troversial plan to move the depot
from its present site to the Bur-
naby Kitchener Street operations
centre,

“If just one bus breaks down,
rush hour would be over by the
time they get another bus out from
the Burnaby depot. People will be
wailing hours and the bus would

By EVELYN JACOB
Contributing Writer

probably be jam-packed,”’ said
McCormack, also a spokesman for
Save Our Buses (SOB), a local
group fighting to keep the bus
depot in North Vancouver,

But B.C. Transit spokesman
Diane Gendron said that if an ac-
cident occurs it wouldn’t matter
where the depot was, ‘‘everyone
would experience a delay.”’

Furthermore, all buses would
leave Burnaby and be on the North
Shore between 5:30 and 6:45 a.m.
— well before morning rush hour.
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Gendron said ‘that would be a
very unusual situation.””

‘We would re-route the buses as
best we could, to the Lions Gate
Bridge. We also have the SeaBus.”"

B.C. Transit has said it will save
$564,000 per year if North Shore
buses are moved to the Burnaby
outlet. lt plans to move the depot
by the beginning of next year.

But) McCormack insists the
move is a bad idea.

“At this stage transit is not talk-
ing or listening to anyone. It still
hasn’t made a statement that it
plans to do the sensible thing and
leave the depot in North Van-
couver.”’

McCormack hopes that a peti-
tion, containing signatures of more
than 22,000 North Shore residents
against the move that SOB plans to
present to the Transit Commission
on Sept. 1, will force Transit to
reverse its decision.

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