IQUIRING REPORTER
MORE buses! Locally, we have heard transit users shout
for restoration of the direct service to U.B.C. and better
service to Capilano College as well as the Seymour area in

general. On a larger scale, light rail ransit has been tout-
ed as one answer to the commuter crush on the bridges.

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Does the North Shore have the clout to make these things
happen? Not as things presently stand. But the creation

inquiring

ofa Transit Authority by the Greater Vancouver Regional

reporter District will at least throw mere buses into the traffic jam

sooner than BC Transit would schedule them. But the

creation of the GVTA is by no means certain and, even if

it is, the wish list comes with a price tag. Annual fare increases of three percent and an
extra $80 or so per taxpayer in new fees and levies over the next 10 years.

NORTH SHORE DEMOGRAPHICS

Horseshoe Bay
Dundarave/Ambieside

British Properties
Norgate/Pemberton Heights
Capilano/Delbrook Highlands
Lower Lonsdale

Central and Upper Lonsdale

YES
33%
30%
16%
30%
38%
18%
37%

NO

33%
32%
63%
41%
40%
53%
24%

DON’T
KNOW

12%
15%
16%
9%
8%
9%

OTHER
ANSWER
22%
23%
5%

Dallas Collis

North Vancouver

Yes, because if we are going,
to keep growing like this, we
have no choice but to sup-
port this. We cannot stick

Elfen Hayward

West Vancouver

Yes, provided that the sys-
tem is very effectively man-
aged by all of the municipal-
ities working together.

Lynn Valley
Blueridge/Deep Cove

TOTAL .....cssccnceensersenseesosaseeessccvers 3190

The following are some of the
issues that were before North
qincouver City Council Nov,

Absent: Coun. Sharp

Issue: That $58,000 for
replacement of two carpool
vehicles be funded from the
Machinery and Equipment
Depreciation and Obsolescence
Reserve.

Result: passed
unanimously

Issue: That the

housing of nwo —

antique fire trucks which form
part of the city’s collection in a
new Greater Vancouver
Regional District. Watershed
Management Division facility at
Rice Lake in the Seymour
Demonstration Forest be
approved, and that up to
$26,500 be allotted from the
Museum Building Fund for the
capital cost of adding two bays
for the fire trucks to the pro-
posed building being con-
structed by the GVRD.

Result: passed unanimously

Issue: That the process for
amalgamating the Family
Court and Youth Justice
Committee into a mi-municipal

36%
49%

39%

25%
31%

committee be approved; and
that staff put together the
appropriate representation and
funding levels; and that the
mandate and terms of reference
attached to the October 3 cor-
respondence from the chair of
North Vancouver Family Court
and Youth Justice Committee
regarding the amalgamation.

Result: passed unanimously

Issue: That the North Shore
Arts Commission, in coopera-
tion with appropriate commu-
nity groups and agencies,
directed ‘to facilitate the cre-
ation of a non-profit society for
¢ purpese of future planning
of the Millennium Festival.
Result: passed unanimously

Issue: That subject to funding
approval in the 1997 Revised
Budget, the Engineering
Department proceed with the
selection and hiring ofa consul-
tant to prepare a Utiliny Rights-
of-Way
Management
Plan for the City
of North
Vancouver.
Result: passed
unanimously

Issue: Whereas the installaton
of above-ground electrical and
telecommunication _ utilities
often are in conflict with the
pedestrian environment; there-
fore be it resolved that here-
inafter all electrical utilities be
installed outside of the public
right-of-way, with approved
screening, or where such utili-
ties must be installed within the
public right-of-way that they be
installed underground where
ever possible.
Result: passed unanimously
Left room due to conflict of
interest: Coun. Perrault.

— Jolanda Waskito

7%

our heads in the sand.

‘Aré-you prepared to/pay more fees, fares or taxes for d better transit system?

Katherine Harris

North Vancouver

The problem is people
telling us to “Take the bus”
when the transit system is
horrendous. I'd be willing
to pay something extra for it
— especially rapid transit
across the bridge.

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