2- Sunday, February 6, 1994 ~ North Shore News

~ Lions Gate SeaBus
erminal floated as
idea to ease transit

A. LOW-TECH solution to the
Lions: Gate Bridge ‘traffic
squeeze. will deal with: North
Shore commuting problems
most effectively, according 10
a regional planning expert.

By Kevin Gillies *
Contributing Writer

oo Wast Vancouver’ resident Ken -

’ Higgs suggested that additional

» -SeaBus passenger ferries could run
from- downtown Vancouver to a
“new terminal atthe North Shore
foot of Lious Gate Bridge.

University of British Columbia’

_profe essor of community planning

". Michael Seelig praised ihe solution
MP as. Lsiniple and effective approach
“10 handling local commuter traffic.
“We must end our love affair

with the automobile Seelig told an
audience that: included. North

-Mancouver: District’ Mayor. Murray
‘Dykeman, several district council-.:

. have the

tors, arepresentative from the
Community Focus Group and spe-
cial interest groups’ from the West
End and the Narth Share,

To add more lines of traffic inte
downtown Vancouver will only
increase problems such as canges-
tion and pollution, he said at the
Jan, 29 meeting.

Seelig said a five-lane bridge
from the North Shore to Stantey
Park: would create more proble ems
than it would solve,
© But Seelig said that mas 5 transit
is not the ullimate solution either.

Because Vancouver doesn’t
population densities of
larger cities. mass transit
cost-effective.

_ According to Greater, Vancouver |
Regional District (GVRD) popula-.,

tion projections, whhough the North
Shore is growing. it will be home to
a smaller percentage of the Lower

*Matnland’s population in 20 years.
must stop
thinking in terms of living in one

Seelig said people

place while working in another,

cannot be”

Due te the current shou daw ta the ecouo-
HY, we will reduce our already leew te
nate of $60/ tn. by 25%6 on all wor

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