42 - Sunday, April 12, 1992 - North Shore News

Anna Marie
D’Angelo

INQUIRING REPOATER

PROVINICIAL ATTORNEY GENERAL Colin
Gabelmann, a former North Shore MLA, defended last
week’s traffic fine increases as a way to combat B.C.’s
high accident rate. Speeding offences went from $75 to
$100; excessive speeding went from $100 to $150;

seatbelt offences, including lack of child car seats, went

Are the higher traffic fines justified?

Shirley Campbell Barb Mayer
North Vancouver

i think it's for our own
good to have higher
fines. Maybe it will make
speeders pay attention,

Kevin Hooper

North Vancouver

1 think peopte who can’t
afford the fines will slow
down,

from $35 to $75; and pedestrian offences went from $75
to $125. Critics say the fine increases were not ihe result
of safety concerns. They say the increases are a money
grab by budget-conscious politicians in charge of the

North Vancouver

I say the higher, the bet-
ter. But I can’t justify
jaywalking being a higher
fine than speeding.

debt-ridden province.

i: _
Salim Talib
Burnaby
1 think

recklessly.
people will
careful,

it’s good that
fines go higher because
lots of people are driving
Maybe more
be more

D. Rowell

North Vancouver

I think it’s a good idea.
Hopefully it will stop
some people from
speeding.

GVRD to study rechlorination, chloramination

From page 40

cconomic realities of today,”’
Sager said.

“T would have been much hap-
pier if we had established an
overall increase that would have
been acceptable and then decided
within that perimeter what  pro-
grams we should have supported
and, as a result, fo rvght have
reviewed that vole."*

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District Mayor Murray Dykeman
said he agreed increases are
“alarming’’ and sympathized with
Sager's position.

“He's taken a fiscal position.
(But) f think the public process is
required. The public ... wants to
know all because there are some
questions that have come for-
ward,”* he said.

For example, Dykeman asked
why chlorine outputs from pulp

more chlorine
water,

tioned the funding.

mills are being reduced but con-
sideration is being given to adding
tu local drinking

GVRD member und Richmond
Ald, Doug Sandberg also ques-

“LT asked a year ago just where
this train was going. J thought we

were going to look at other op-
tions,” be said.

Why, he asked, spend all this
money disinfecting the entire
water sysiem when only a small
percentage is used for drinking?

“What about water flushed
down the toilet? Besides, I’m see-
ing more and more people with

bottled water in their homes or
devices that attach to taps and
purify. | think it's time to stop
this train.”

But regardiess of the few
members opposed, public con-
sultation on secondary water
treatment could begin as early as
September.

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