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youth was pinned down, but managed to get ap
and ran away when he was released.

Two drivers sustained minor injuries.

Shortly afterwards, another bus driver was
attacked by owo teens in an unrelated incident
near Phibbs Exchange.

Just after 1} p.m., the youths boarded the
bus by the Chevron station at Mount Seymour
Parkway and Lytton St. One of them had only
a $10 note to pay with. Bellavy said drivers
don’t carry or give out change.

The driver of the bus told the boys they
could get on, but would have to pay double the
following day.

“You don’t tell me what to do,” the boy
allegedly told the driver, before proceeding to
the back of the bus with his companion.

Three stops later, the teens rang the bell and
walked up to the front of the bus, where they
dragged the driver out of the vehicle, punched
and kicked him, and pushed him down a hill
into a ditch,

The driver was able to put the master brake
on before he was dragged out, but the engine
was left running, Bellavy said.

The driver hit his head on a rock when he
fell into the ditch. He suffered cuts and bruises

ity a concern

and dizziness, although X-rays taken at Lions
Gate Hospital indicated nothing was broken.

‘The perpetrators ran off.

North Vancouver RCMP are following leads
in both cases.

So far this year there have been 112 assaults
of varying severity on local bus drivers, ranging
from spitting to punching, Last year there were
more than 200 assaults.

Don MacLeod, president of Canadian Auto
Workers Union local 11], said drivers remain
particularly concerned about security levels at
Lonsdale Quay and Phibbs Exchange.

“Our job is to inform the public about
fares.” said MacLeod, “not to enforce them..
We're not policemen.”

MacLeod said violent inciderits were on the
increase, and that preventive action should be
taken at the earliest opportunity. Suggested
security measures include a uniformed presence
and surveillance cameras at bus loops, and the
possible introduction of protective screens to
shield drivers from the public.

Bellavy said the recent spate was “quite
head-turning. I don’t know if it’s just beceuse
there’s been no rain in Vancouver for the last
couple of weeks or what.”

On Monday morning, a Vancouver bus dri-
ver was attacked by a passenger with a rake.

EVEN an apology can
be spun different ways
when it’s made in the
public forum of politics.

Coun. Ernie Crist, in’ his
latest crusade against the pow-
ers that be, demanded. last
week that Mavor Dun Bell
withdraw remarks made dur-
ing a June 19 council meeting.

Frompied by a request
Crist had made that the mayor
reduce his regional committee
work and spend more time at
district hall, Bell was defending
his leadership. In the middle of
a Jong discussion, he remarked
that many of Crist’s criticisms
had been made at meetings by
Dave Sadler, who ran against
Bell in Jast November's elec-
tion. He then calied Sadler a
“running mate” of Crist.

“Mir. Sadler agreed that he
would run if Coun. Crist
would not,” said Bell at the
June 19 meeting, referring toa
Newspaper story.

That statement, argued
Crisz, was violating the rules of
order.

“I believe that the mayor,
instead of keeping his cool,
went ona tirade,” said Crist. “I

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request’ for an) apology)
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Bell, who had made the
remarks in a reasonable tone,
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“inappropriate” to make pub-
lic statements about others”
motives.

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