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Lavalin-Squamish concept for twin Lions Gate bridges to cost $230 million
NADAS LARGEST envineering-coustruction firu,
which has teamed up with the Squamish | ration to propose

NEWS photo Neil Lucente

a replacement for Che Liosis ¢

sate Bridve, learned the hard

way that native fards don't like to be ignored when it
comes to building on (heir land,

Berd Lamarre, senior advisor
ty the Montecal-based SN¢
Liawalin, said ata news conference
Wednesday that 26 years age
Lavalin proposed a replacement for
Montreal's Mercier Bridge.

The bridge's approaches puss
through native lands, as is true of
the Lions Gate, The company
failed to consult the Mohawk band
and the natives turned Lavalin'’s
finalized project down,

This time, the company wooed
the Squamish first. The firm
teamed up with New
Westoinster’s Canraa
Construction to approach the
Squamish a year ago and work
with its members to develop a
Lions Gate crossing proposal.

Squamish Chief Philip Joe told
the News fast week that none of the
seven other local bridge propo-
nents had consulted the band. He
said that’s one of the reasons the
Squamish decided to submit their
own plan.

Squamish council chairman Bill
Williams anticipates financial and
employment opportunities for his
people if this plan receives govern-
ment approval. The band wauld
take a percentage of tolls and col-
lect taxes on leased lands.

The Lavalin-Squamish concept,
which is expected to cost private

ex offen
for West

THE MOTHER of a
repeat sex offender burst
into tears in her husband’s
arms in a Vancouver
courtroom Tuesday when
her son was sentenced to
three years in jail for a
noon-hour assault in West
Vancouver’s Ambleside
Park 2% years ago.

By Brent Mudry
Contributing Writer

Outside the courtroom, Mark
Napierala’s female victim sobbed

By Kate Zimmerman
News Reporter

investors $230 million, is ca twin
the Lions Gate, The private sector
would build and own the new
bridge, renovate the old bridge and
operate a toll system on both.

In 20 to 25 years, once the
group has recovered its investment,
the investors would transfer owner-
ship of the new bridges to the
province.

The consortium’s bridge aodel
was unveiled Wednesday at the
Robson Square Conference Centre.
where various bridge and tunnel
proponents submitted their plans
for public scrutiny.

Williams said the Squamish
believe in the preservation of the
56-year-old bridge as a tandimark.
“The Lions Gate Bridge is a sym-
bol of Vancouver,” he said. The
bridges would each carry two lines
of traffic heading in one direc-
tion—-the old bridge south and the
new bridge north,

Pedestrian and cycle paths
would be much wider than they are
now, and automobile traffic would
be accorded four 12-foot-wide
lanes, rather than the current three

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er jailed
an attack

Court Mr. Justice Richard Lowe
stated Napierala is an “ongoing
danger to the public.”

“He has twice lashed out in
extreme violence unpredictably,”
the judge noted. “He is now diag-
nosed as a schizophrenic, but the
condition did not pive tise to the
offence.’

The cyurtroom was tense as
Napieraia, 21, of Burnaby, was
ted into the prisoner's s box.

He waved in slow motion to
his family. Behind him sat his
parents, his younger brother and
his sister. At the opposite end of
the front row sat his victim and
her supporters.

Justice Lowe had earlier
found Napierala guilty of an

in relief, comforted by several
SQUAMISH NATION council chairman Bill Williams (left) takes a closer look at a twin bridge con- friends.
cept proposed by the Squamish and consortium partners as a replacement for the tired Lions In Tuesday’s sentencing hear-
.Gate Bridge. Bernard Lamarre, senior advisor to SNC Lavalin and Dale Cripps, SNC Lavalin divi- ing in Vancouver, B.C. Supreme
sion director, look on. |

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