District eyes future
transit services

Need for better bus depot viewed a priority

Annette Martin
Contributing Writer

A TRANSIT wish list presented to
North Vancouver District Council on
Nov. 6 contains more sweeping rec-
ommendations than TransLink's five-
year plan,

Although the North Shore Area Transit Pian
is the first far-reaching review of public trans-
portation on the North Shore for many years,
Donna Howes, assistant manager of transporta-
tion and planning, identified “areas of concern”
that the transportation planning department
believes were not adequately addressed.

Outlining a report, Howes recommended
that council endorse the plan subject to the
inclusion of the following items:

Ba third ScaBus to be operational within five
years.

Service reliability is of concern. Existing ves-
sels are now 22 years old. Maintenance needs
and possite malfunction have to be taken into
“consideration. A TransLink proposal to run the

service at 12-minute intervals will cause further
wear on the existing fleet. An option of remov-
ing seating, to accommodate standees at peak
periods has not been supported by market
research, open houses, public advisory comunit-
tee (PAC) comments or municipalities and could
discourage ridership.

A further recommendation was for council to
support and recommend thar TransLink desig-
nate the use of SeaBus for a single trip as a one-
zone fare;

Mcapital costs to implement transit priority mea-
sures (giving buses priority on congested reads).

‘The opportunity to add more buses into the
network is limited by congested municipal arte-
rial roads, which are already operating at full
capacity, especially ac the approach to both
bridgeheads. Capital is needed for property
acquisition to build transit: priority lanes. A
cost/benefit analysis needs to be done;

B construction of a new-North Shore bus depot

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The Harvest and the task

Friday, November 17, 2000 — North Shore News - 5

NEWS photo Cindy Goodman

A transit worker brushed snow from buses at the crowded North Vancouver bus.

depot last year.

Harvest’s client care supervi-

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Though the North Shore
~is an affluent community,
‘report released in September
by the task force suggested
that ‘at least 82 people were
without homes and sleeping
rough’ in North and West
_ Vancouver,
The task force is hoping to
get’ money: from Human
=" Resources and Development
Canada, out. of $23 million
dollars set aside. by the feder-
al . government to target
“homelessness “in the Greater
‘Mancouver area over the next
>, three years.. Bradshaw was

‘responsible for setting the

funding program up.

“Homelessness was not 2°

ipriority for the Liberal: gov-
fernment,”, said Bill Bell,
North Vancouver City coun-
‘cillor and: North Vancouver
:Liberal. candidate in’ the

‘upcoming ‘federal election.

“Bell, accompanied Bradshaw .

n her tour of The. Harvest. :
Tt was: this woman indi-
iduaily who . pushed _ this

process through. _She’s a-

remarkable woman.”

But in’ order te secure the
funding, the task force must
first find a site, and to date,
that has proved to be diffi-
cult.”

““We're having a little
trouble with the location,”

Dr. Brian O’Connor, chief

medical officer for the NSHR
and head of the. task force
told Bradshaw. “We might be
a little behind, but we're
coming,” O° Connor said.
Bradshaw encouraged the
group to keep working at it.
She said organizations like

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sor, John Day, said the need
for the shelter becomes ever
more pressing now that the
cold weather has arrived.

“We are seeing more
(homeless people) at The
Harvest now,”

force “can do more with a
buck, with cone dollar, than
some of the people we give
$30, 000 ta. Don't stop.
cep applying, keep fighting,
keep the ball rolling.”

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