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A10 - Sunday, March 27, 1983 - North Shore News

reporter

by
Ellsworth
Dickson

On the longer ferry runs to Prince Rupert,
beer and wine are available to the
passengers. Also, beer and wine are served
on the American ferry runs from Anacortes
to the San Juan Islands. However, none is
served on the runs to Victoria, Nanaimo or
the Sunshine Coast.

Today’s question ts:

“Should beer and wine

be served on the B.C.
Ferries?”’

Chris Hay
Port Moody

I don’t think it is really
necessary. There is too

LIFE THREATENING
natural dangers along

‘Squamish highway — which

have claimed 11 lives in two

years -- demand that
governments seek an
alternative route. to ac-

commodate the burgeoning
traffic flow heading to
Whistler and Blackcomb ski
resorts, North Vancouver
District council heard
Monday. ;

Squamish and Whistler
Regional District Chairman
Dan Cumming, spokesman
for a Highway 99 task force
delegation, told council that
private traffic studies
conducted by their group
show the Squamish highway
will “be massively
overloaded with vehicles” in
the near future.

They urged council to
support their campaign to
open up the Capilano water-
shed for construction of a
two-lane highway
specifically designed for
passenger and recreational
vehicles only.

A similar presentation was
made before North Van-
couver City council recently,
but that council voted to
register their opposition to
an alternative route to
Highway 99 because of the
traffic tie-ups such a route
would cause in North
Vancouver, and because of
the danger to the watershed

tands.
Dr. Laverne Kindree, a
task force member, told

District the committee had
examined a total of three
possible alternative
corndors to the present

highway which hugs Howe -

Sound, and according to
their findings Capilano
watershed is the _ best
potential new access route to
Squamish.

“Howe Sound ts a winding
road carved out of the steep

mountainside and is
questionably capable of
widening to a_ four-lane

highway,” said Kindree.

He also added that the
Squamish route is geologi-
cally unstable because it is
sull “in a relanvely active

stage of stress formation”

which can cause broken
rocks to slide onto the
highway below.

“Because of the steepness
of the terrain and nature of
the ground, mud and rock

flows are ..... a constant
threat.”

Underlining the urgency
of a new route, the

delegation recalled to mind
the recent tragedies in which
11 people died -- 9 deaths at
M Creek in 1981 when
torrential rains washed out a
bridge and the two latest
victims in the Alberta Creek
disaster in Lion’s Bay.
“Torrential mudflows
have claimed several lives
and have highlighted the un-
predictable and hazardous
nature of the section “ot
Highway 99 between Furry
Creek and Horseshoe Bay.”
According to the
delegation, the group has
looked at both Seymour and
Indian Arm corridors as
possible alternatives, but
technical problems related
with these two routes forbid
further consideration.

Kindree also said that

Now District is being urged
to back watershed highway

By CHARLES MAYER

arise from the Capilano
route would be handled and
“dispersed as it emerges
from above the dam” by re-
routing to both Lion’s Gate

and Second Narrows
bridges. ¢

He added this would be
done without “upsetting

existing housing and street
traffic.”

The delegation also at-
tempted to allay concerns
about pollution to Capilano’s
watershed, and explained to

council the proposed
highway would in fact
“improve water quality.”

“Maintenance or im-

provement of water quality
will necessitate special
environmental safeguards
and the design of specific
Measures to ensure and
improve water quality.”

Council indicated to the
delegation it would review
the groups’ proposal and
return it to the policy and
planning committee meeting
for further discussion, at
which ume they will decide

traffic flow which would their position on the matter.

much alcohol con-~

con-
sumption in B.C. as it is.
Why promote” more
drinking?

£E
Ronald Bisset
North Vancouver

Yes, I would say so. I
have visited Victoria a
number of times and it
would be nice to have a
cold beer. Since the ferry
ride is a little over an
hour, 1 don’t think there
would be drunkenness.

- Hector Plourde
North Vancouver

Definitely Pm from
Quebec where drinking
laws are more liberal
You don't see public
drunkenness there I
would also like (to. see
beer and wine sold in

grocery stores.

Uwe Meyer

Vancouver

Yes Being from
Germany, | am used to
beer and wine being sold
more openly without
problems T would enyoy
a cold beer on the ferry to
Nanaimo

Carolina Christtans
North Vancouver

[oc anee t

see why not
Obes countries have
more hiberal hquor laws
withoul problems
Grocery stores should

sell beer and wine as well

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