B.C. Tel -
defends -
pay phone
Closures _

By.
_ STEWART MCNEIL

which . created a pair of.
empty North ‘Vancouver
seats.

The ‘grass roots activity
was triggered by last week's
resignation of Gordon
Gibson as MLA for North
‘Vancouver-Capilano and
also as leader-of the Liberals
in B.C. to help Prime
‘Minister Pierre Trudeau
prepare for a_ federal
‘election. 7

Socred cabinet minister
Jack Davis created the first
vacancy when he cesigned
his North Vancouver-
Seymour seat last October.

‘Rick Scott, president of

North Vancouver-Seymour
Liberal Association, told the
News that association

members already have got a —

short list of five potential
candidates for Seymour.
That list includes the names
of three women as the
Liberals prepare for either a
by-election or a provincial
election this year.

. “We will run a strong
campaign,” Scott said, “and
our association is very ac-
tive.”

Bob Jacoby, president of

‘North Vancouver-Capilano
Association, said he expects

there will be a con for the
nomination in-that con-
stituency. ;

“We will never be able to
replace Gordon Gibson but
we've had a search © com-
mittee for.a candidate,” he
said.

said he feels. a
incial election will be
-d for April. -

Speaking on behalf of the

-. Social Credit Party Frank .
Dimbicki, whois _president---
West Vancouver...

of the
Social Credit Constituency
Association, said North
Shore Socreds anticipate
that Premier Bennett will
call a byelection for North

Van-Seymour to fill the

vacancy caused by Jack
Davis’ resignation, sometime
in March.

If the premier calls a
provincial election, then the
byelection and _ general
election would be combined
for this riding, he said. ;

Provincial NDP secretary
Yvonne Cocke said the NDP
is facing ‘a big dilemma’ of
what to do with the two
North Vancouver vacancies
in the light of possible

federal and provincial
elections. .
Conservative spokesman

Corinne Burns says three or
four potential candidates
were expected to emerge for
the .-Nerth Van-Seymour
nominating . meeting
originally scheduled for
January 31, That meeting,
however, has now been
postponed while the Tories
evaluate the new sityation.

Licence lineups to stop?

>A new motor vehicle
license plate issuing
procedure to help climinate
the annual February lincups
will go into effect April 1,
1979, it was announced
today by Transportation,
Communications and
Highways Minister Alex V.
Fraser.

The new . procedure,
called “cyclical license
renewal”, will allow vehical

owners applying for licenses
on or after April 1 to keep
their plates for a full year
from that date. To do this
they will be issued one decal
on which the expiry date will
be printed.

For cxample, owners who
apply for a license plate on

April 1 will receive a decal
Onn a March 31, 1980 expiry
date. A May 1979 issuance
would receive number plates
and a decal with an April 30,
1980 expiry date, and no
decal is required.

The cyclical plan will be
phased in over a number of
years, according to Fraser,
and as it takes effect will
spread the current large
volume of business in
Pebruary over the entire
year,

The 1979 license plates
consist of white figures on a
blue background for
passenger vehicles and green
figures on a_e white
background for commercial
vehicles.

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Under-utilized pa

Ly
in public places are removed .

by B.C. Telephone Company
only with great reluctance

and “after long and serious -

consideration”. That's the
word from a company
‘spokesman following a
recent report in the. Sunday
News (“Pay phones rapidly
disappearing”, Jan. 14.).

The report noted that pay
phones have been removed
from --numerous ‘public
buildings on the North Shore
‘e-- including Karen

Magnussen Arena, the |

William Griffin Pool, West
Vancouver skating rink-and
Lonsdale | Avenue
restaurants.

‘Mike Reigh, B.C. Tel's
coin telephone manager,
says the pay phone at the
Karen Magnussen arena ~ a
typical case — was used an

average of less than eight”

times a day throughout 1978.
Some pay phones have

calls.

According to Reigh, an
average of 15-20 calls a day
is about the minimum
needed to cover the capital
investment in a pay phone

($500 for the equipment plus:

installation costs) and
average yearly maintenance
costs of around $122. The
primary purpose in closing

n under-utilized pay -

phones, he says, is to
relocate them in places
where they’ can provide the
maximum service for the
greatest number of people.

Reigh stresses that the
decision to close down a pay
phone is not taken lightly,
and that the availability of
alternative telephone service
is a key consideration. In the
case of the Karen
Magnussen Arena and other
“de-phoned” establishments
he suggests that the phone in
the office should be
adequate for the minimal
number of daily patrons who
need one - given a little

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informal co-operation by the
management.

Reigh admits that the
small handful of people who
have been using such a pay
phone each day will be
inconvenienced by its

~ removal.

But, he adds, “I am sure
you can appreciate the

B.C.Tel cannot be expected

_ to continually provide a |

service facility that receives
minimum use -- no more
than one should expect the
District of North Vancouver:
to continually provide a
municipal service to its
taxpayers which is seldom
used; certainly not during
this time of economic
restraint in both the private
and public sector”.

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you?

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