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December start pending DFO approval

~ Karen Robbins
2 Contributing Writer
CONSTRUCTION is scheduled to begin next
month on a $30-million BC Ferries terminal
‘expansion at Horseshoe Bay.

; BC Ferries has yet to obtain Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO)
_ approval. Ferries communications coordinator Deborah Dykes said the cor-
poration submitted Canadian Environmental Assessment Act: screening
requirements to the DFO for approval several weeks ago.
She said BC Ferries expects a letter back any day now.
Pending approval, Dyk: the corporation will begin with prepara-
tions for the terminal maintenance site and will start the ruad work for the
expanded compound in front of the toll booths and the parkade.
- Meanwhile, representatives from the BC Ferries Horseshoe Bay Terminal
Expansion Project came to the West Vancouver school board meeting
Tuesday night to address some of the concerns of the Gicneagles Concerned
Parents Committee (GCPC).
_ The ferry terminal expansion includes: a new terminal maintenance build:
ing, a parkade, which will be built beneath the Trans-Canada Highway, a foot
passenger drop-off area and a new toll booth station, which is the cause of
concern to the GCPC and the school board as it — along with about seven
“extra traffic lanes —- be built beside Glencagles Elementary School.
BC Ferries project manager Peter Lutzmann explained to the school
board and a greup of about 30 concerned parents and residents from the area
:, that the expansion plans are to accommodate existing traffic levels.
“We are not building in anticipation of increases, but to handle today’s
traffic issues,” he said.
Lutzmann said that for the past 10 years there has been a serious safety
concern on the Trans-Canada highway — largely due to commuter traffic
heading for the ferry terminal.
“The expansion plans wilt allow the terminal to accommodate 1,250 vehi-
cles —— 550 more vehicles than it can currently handle.
> Lutazmann assured the ‘audience that the: expansion. plans will. not
encroach on anyone else’s property as all the planned development is to the
east, heading away from the Horseshoe Bay community
However, several residents said that although the expansion is towards the
“east, the plan to move the toll booths closer to the school, south, will have a ;
major impact on the school. » fered I sol F % Say cA ALY my Sf
Peter Buitenhuis, who lives in the area, offered several solutions to the : se errr ear ashe
expansion plans. He suggested that BC Ferries institute mandatory reserva- at . -”, NEWS photo Mike Wekotietd
tions ro reduce traffic volumes. F u se : D j ui es
*~. Lutzmann said BC Ferries is looking, into the option, but it’s one that

‘¢an’t occur overnight. “Our customers do not want to make reservations,” : .
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