Rerouting rr

' seems to have been an afterthought.

IERE’S now a free shuttie ser-

vice for cyclists and pedestrians

‘ trapped by reconstruction of the

Lions Gate Bridge — big whoopdee-
doo.

ow” considerate, How very gener-

ovAs of yesterday, , cyclists and pedes-
trians have been relega ad te the
abzolute bottom of the commuter food
' chain. To add insult to injury, taxpay-
-_, Gare chelling out about $200,000 to
a
., The read has yet to come for
.. drivers pert apten the Lions Gate
_ Bridge, but for the mobile riff-raff,
closures kicked in yesterday.

There has been much logistical
‘prasins and ‘turning to mitiente the
drivers during, the con-

of the Lions Gate. The

iff-rati

Go to the Lions Gate Project Web site
<www.lionsgatebridge.gov.bc.ca> and
the full sidewalk closures are slyly
explained.as being “in accordance with
the recommendations of the Vancouver
Area Cycling Coalition, thé North
Vancouver Joint Bicycle Advisory
Committee and the municipal council
from the District of North Vancouver.”

How cenvenient. :

We didn’t want to do this, we were
asked to after we made an unsafe situ-
ation even more hazardous.

The shuttle service will not be run-
ning 24 hours, seven days a week. This

* effectively means that those who

choose’ to cycle or walk have their
options limited to SeaBus — which
does not operate 24 hours either — or
a trek across the Second Narrows. —

- How very inconvenient.

"THE abuses and ethically shabby
stuff in last month’s North Shore

eve the ee ana of those councillors ;

sage i
& ct ele

iim a that I'and my fellow voters were swayed by

by-on

group is insulting. °

ort direct a emoeraey show us srefererida

dil-candidates mestings ee I mended were ©

ble.
‘What are we gonna
do about ie
_ If we citizens of
-:North Vancouver City —-
and District and West
Vancouver don’t act, we
deserve all the cynicis:n
and dirty tricks we get:
— and all the pale-up-
" their-backsides hyp-
~octites who turn away.
from the slime:after the
‘, election and go on with :.
business as usual.

2Ie’s nuts. Our federal and provincial :
clection laws on perzinent matters are a
pendulum-swing away from our F municipal

- parties that they were denied nation

party ae aud their Party finds were

"5 repressive ‘rules :
“fegarding g third: -party action in federal

lections turned democracy. into
lemockracy,” restricted n
} tion, and left all power
‘chands of the old pros of the:*
partics "
Parliament nfs

ians, and stifled pine

nee ‘by organizations and individ .

Wott Store Moves, founded in 1900 a6 an

municipal elections : are intolera-

ndidates

JEEPERS,
KNURGIK,
NOT ANOTHER

‘tal citizens. :
Horrors — ~ special-interest groups

‘might subvert the democratic Process.

Acmually steal elections! ;

The Communist Party of Canada took os

to the courts, ‘and won.
vate citizen emba:

-rassed the hell out of * “
"similar provincial con-

. straints in B.C. Now our

legislators are mulling

- how wo somehow): : *

rewrite the laws aid still

keep control. :

_ But the pa dulum

swings tothe othe

: extreme for third-party

i in misnictpal el

mal you need is a
or phone number’
get-together with a passing of the ‘an
you _can print flyers or run ads whose;

source is as m hroai

Two solid North Vancouver, District
councillors, ‘Trevor Corolan,

; ? cour rai
Oh, so?'Is that worse = oF,
ing — than the'sweet wine.of :
can numb the sense Gf Prd be

Rezs and losers alike should’s

“the guy caught re

‘care —~ and how ethically sloppy,
zens have beconie — will be, whether any
_ charge is laid in thé outrageous matter of.
ded. the
‘hours of the morning
tion posters of mayo:
Sadler,
Ia his forzval complaint
Sadler said he saw the man