Dear Editor: MAILBOX Squamish tunnel would cost too much the highway. This is contrary to what we are trying to do to protect the ; With regard to improvements to the Squamish Highway, what spinoff jobs is Zoltan Kuun talking about other than the building of the tunnel? People have billions of dollars invested in the Squamish area and now he suggests putting on a toil. Tt is expensive enough now to go to Whistler without a $5 toll each way. This will lase jobs, not create them. So the tunnel saves you 15 minutes and half a gallon of gas. Big deal. For this you should pay a toll? Another objection to a 21-kilometre tunnel is accidents. It could tie up traffic for hours ith the possibility of a fire. With a power outage, you could be stuck fur hours in the middle in the dark in a pileup. The three alternative surface routes, Capilano, Seymour and Indian. Arm, all require cutting a swath of 50 or 60 feet of trees, the length of Don’t pave our watershed Ferries would solve problem Dear Editor: Regarding Highway 99: I have reached a decision on alternatives for Highway 99. Politicians and bureau- crats please take note. Build a dock at Squamish able to handle full-size ferries — that’s it. Surplus ferry capacity should be available since the rockfalls seem to occur dur- ing the slack tourist season. A nominal charge seems appropriate to dissuade joy riders. 1 know, there’s going to be loud howls from the special interest groups, principally the powerful road _ building lobby and operators of Whistler. If they’re so hot to build a road, let them. Help them assemble the land, even let them charge a toll. But don’t make me pay for it, or for a multi-million dollar **feasibility study.’” We impoverished can always use the old road. No one has suggested abandoning that road to avoid the cost of maintenance or policing. Too many live along the route. But please, stay out of my watershed and don’t lumber me with the cost to build or maintain another road. Frank Murphy North Vancouver DRAPERIES _ ; 46 CUSTOM DRAPERIES AND VALANCES Labour $7.50 per panel unlined, $8.50 lined Open letter to Jack Davis, MLA: The recent slides on the Squamish Highway have again brought about demands for an alternative route to Squamish and Whistler, with the Capilano, Seymour and Coquitlam water- sheds all being suggested as possi- ble routes. We would be foolish and short-sighted to consider any pro- ject that would involve the slightest risk to our water supply. Anyone who has recently visited Southern California or Arizona would easily understand this. And it is interesting to note that the PRINTED VELVETS (new shipment) $19” m STONE WASHED SILK SUEDE (over 20 colors) NORTH, VANCOUVE ao _- 987-8611 BY S. LAURSEN CUSTOM BEDSPREADS AND COVERS Low, iow prices on blinds and tracks For FREE Estimates Call 987-2966 Serving the North Shore for 19 years environment. Wednesday. November 28. 1990 - North Shore News - 7 John Bremner, North Vancouver District director of engineering ser- vices, calls the tunnel ‘‘unrealistic."’ But 1 haven't seen any proposals from him. The same goes for Bud Elsie of the GVRD. People are paid to solve these problems, not wait for public input. Where has the pro- vincial highways minister been all this time? This part of the province depends on a public highway to transport goods down to markets and shipping. This is for the economy of all of B.C. The money spent patching up the hillside over the years could have built tunnels in the slide areas. Let’s get on with it before more people are killed. J.H. Cooley North Vancouver Mayor of Squamish is quoted as objecting ta any road that would go through the watershed. Now that the situation has to be contronted, perhaps one partial solution is the establishment of a supplementary ferry service to Squamish from some point in Vancouver or Richmond. The B.C. ferry system should probably be overhauled anyway; the Horseshoe Bay termina) will eventually be choked as traffic to and from Vancouver Island in- creases. 1am amazed that the provincial government and the developers involved in the very substantial investment in the Whistler area would have gone ahead without any proper provision for an alter- native route in the first place. Why shouid the present and future population of the Lower Mainland be put at risk because of a high-priced recreational! community that was not properly planned at the start? 1 am utterly opposed to any proposal to construct a road or highway through any of the North Shore watersheds. R. 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