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NEWS photo Mike Waketlold

THE concrete median on Marine Drive between Park Royal Shopping Centre's north and south mails is being
removed to make way for a chain-link fence and hedge to help deter jaywaikers.

fences with jaywalkers

Brady Fatheringham
Contributing Writer

IF you like to jaywalk
across Marine Drive
between Park Royal
Shopping, Centre’s
north and south malis
you'd better learn to
hurdle because a
$30,000 chain-link
fence and. hedge is
going up soon.

On Monday, = West
Vancouver District council
voted down the installation of
a more expensive aluminum
railing barrier — complete

ights and at a cost of
$90,000, it was three times
the original estimate.

The chain-link. fence that
will replace the railing barrier
is intended to thwart jaywalk-
-ers. It will extend from Taylor
Way to Pound Road, which
runs along the castern bound-
ary of Ambleside park. Thorny
bushes will eventually grow up
on either side of the barrier
obscuring the fence. -

" “Pm delighted (th: morc |
expensive barrier) came in.
over budget so we could can-. -

cel it,” Coun. Russ Fraser said
of the original railing plans.

Park Royal Shopping
Centre Ltd. is paying for the
median, which is part of a
prior agreement with the dis-
trict to landscape the area. The
district is paying for the fence
portion of the project.

The median commitment
was made in 1996 when the
mall completed its renovation
Project as part of a curb and
pavement reconstruction plan.

In March, council
approved the original median
with a solid sailing that was
reviewed by the city’s advisory
design panel.

The main jaywalking prob-
fem is at the Park Royal bus
stop where people dash across
Marine Drive to cither side of
the mall. Fraser suggested that
some kids might find the new
barrier “a challenge to climb
over,

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Rick Amantea, director of
Park Royal, said 80% to 90% of
present pedestrian traffic
crosses at the Marine Drive
intersection, which is con-
trolled by traffic lights. He
said the 1.2-metre (4 ft.) high
fence won't affect: the Jaw-
abiding majoriny

“1 think at the end of the
day there is a need to limit the
amount of people going
across,” Amantea said “but I
don’t think it will affect the
flow of traffic.”

Coun. Liz Byrd, although
reluctant to approve the

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$90,000 for the original rail-
ing, said the watered-down
version would be visually
unappealing.

“It's a disgrace this chain-
link fence. [t's the entrance-
way to West Vancouver and it
should Jook nice,” Byrd said.

Construction for the whole
project (curb, roadwork and
fence) should be finished by
carly to nvid-August, Amantea
said.

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rdoafter the signing in February of a master agreement by
wtrict 44, and North Vanecuver Recreation Commission
Is.

The master agecement was intended to facilitate the imple-
Mentation of new sports and recreation facilities at SSorth
Vancouver schools to be shared by local community groups.

“Its taken a few vears for this to happen,” said city clerk
Bruce Hawkshaw,

arent: advisory councils have been driving the
took the bull by the horns and started raisi
\ S projects.”

Hawkshaw said the provision of new equipment at Ridgeway
and Queensbury would be the first of many joint-use agree:
ments between the
city and the school
district,

“Irs Jong over:
duc,” said Ridgeway
Parent Advisory
Council — chairman
Diarmaid O'Dea.
“tts been a long
process, But ies a
good thing thar dif?
ferent levels of gov-
ernment can co-oper-
ate to accomplish
canmuinity gcals.”

Robert Hanvey,
co-chairman of the
parent advisory coun-
cil at Queensbury school, said he’s “thrilled” by the prospect of
new equipment for the school his daughter attends.

“The playground equipment there now dates back to the
time the schoo} was built in the 1950s,” he said, “so it’s not only
out of date, but in some cases it’s quite dangerous.”

There are six all-weather playing ficlds on school lands in
North Vancouver which, until now, have been available primari-
ly for school use. Joint-use agreements will make che fields avail-
able for a broader range of user groups.

Money has already been set aside by the city for similar equip-
ment at and Westview elementary schools, who are cur-
rently negotiating the nature of these upgrades with the school
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MAYOR Jack Loucks (left) and
Schoo! District treasurer Doug
Mackay-Dunn with Joint Usage
Agreement.

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