NEWS photo Cindy Goodman

Sunshine Girl

TWENTY-YEAR-OLD Tracey

likes all types of

music and horror movies. Her favorite activities
include soccer, cooking, and skiing. She intends
to pursue a career in the fashion industry.

Drivers guilty of drinking

RECENT CONVICTIONS ir
North Shore courts have
resulted in fines and penalties,
including a driving suspension,

_ for drinking and driving related
offences:

WEST VANCOUVER:
Michael Dennis Walters, 36,
19-11 Buttertubs Rd.,
Nanaimo (impaired, seven days

Board faces
$500,000
deficit in ’92

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WEST VANCOUVER
SCHOOL BOARD

WEST VANCOUVER
School District 45 has
received a 1.3% per-student
increase in block funding
from the Ministry of
Education for the 1992-93
school year, up from $5,524
per student in 1991-92 to
$5,594 in 1992-93.

District 45 superintendent Doug

Player said the small increase will
make the district’s budget, ‘‘dif-
ficult to put together.’’
* The board’s current budget is
balanced, but a deficit of $500,000
is expected at fiscal year-end in
June.

Block funding — a_ dollar
amount for each student within a
school district -—- accounts for
86% of the school board’s budget.

jail); Mark Corner, 42, 6665
Royal Ave., West Vancouver
(impaired, $500 fine).
NORTH VANCOUVER:
Florence A. MacDonald, 59,
5272 Malaspina Pl., North
Vancouver (breathalyser refus-
al, $500 fine); Doreen Luane
Goodwin, 34, 38241 Juniper
Cres., Squamish (breathalyser
refusal, $300 fine).

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Sunday, March

15, 1992 - North Shore News — 41

Bike option not popular in WV

WEST VANCOUVER District staff planner Graham
Stallard has stated in a recent memo to West Vancouver
municipal manager Doug Allan that promoting the wider
use of bicycle transportation in West Vancouver will be

difficult.

West Vancouver District Coun-
cil voted Monday night to forward
Stallard’s memo to Vancouver
Ald. Gordon Price, chairman of
the Greater Vancouver Regional
District Regional (GVRD) Bicycle
Task Force.

Stallard was responding to one
of the goals that came out of the
GVRD’s Creating Our Future
report: to double the number of
bicycle commuters by 1995 by
promoting a regional cycling net-
work in cooperation with the
municipalities.

Part of the goal would be to
create a regional map of com-
muter and recreational cycle
routes, work with B.C. Transit to
create multi-modal travel and en-
courage municipalities to adopt
development standards that ac-
commodate the needs of cyclists.

While West Vancouver staff
supported the idea of improving
local cycling infrastructures, they
said that from their experience
those opportunities were limited.

West Vancouver’s major routes
are all dangerous for cyclists, in-
cluding Marine Drive, Taylor Way
and Lions Gate Bridge.

The Upper Levels Highway has
a wide sidelane that could be used

By Maureen Curtis
Contributing Writer

retical answer, but they are
seldom practical,’’ said Stallard.
Ald. Diana Hutchinson = said
that West Vancouver will look at
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ous because of its proximity to

high-speed vehicular traffic.
In the future, however, the

municipality can look at making

provisions for cyclists with the -
possible development of another

crossing of Burrard Inlet and the
lower level road.

“Allowing room for cycle paths
should be a consideration in
subsequent stages of development
of the Park Royal site. However
the provision of safe and separat-
ed provision for bicycle com-
muting seems to be 2 distant pro-
spect,’ Stallard noted in his
memo.

Vancouver City has cooperated
with the Canadian Pacific Railway
by setting up a bicycle path within
the right-of-way of an active rail
line — something West Vancouver
might look at in future,

Other recreational opportunites
for cycling could include local
mountain trails.

A major problem is that on
most roads, cyclists are at risk
from vehicles, while on recre-
ational trails pedestrians are at
potential risk from cyclists.

‘Separate systems are the theo-

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