North Vancouver
District council has
gone on record as
supporting a hight rapid
transit rail link to the
North Shore.

But most council members
admit it is very unlikely such
a link will be built in the near
future.

The discussion of a rapid
transit link to the North
Shore, at last week's council
meeting, was sparked by a

motion from Alderman
Ernie Crist.
Crist wanted council to

instruct its representative on
the GVRD to advocate and
pursue the extension of the
rapid transit to the North
Shore at the Greater
Vancouver Regional Distnct
(GVRD) level and request

he submit) a monthly
progress report on the
subject

Cnst said wt was not the

first time he had brought the
subject to council and said
he has “consistently tried to
get rapid transit extended to
the North Shore ~

“What we need tn the long
term 1s LRT (Light Rapid
Transat) and nothing cise.”

pushing f Be LRT

Crist said that many of the
plans for development of
downtown could not really
go ahead until the whole
region has rapid transit.

Alderman Mary Segal
backed Crist’s motion and
said that while it is clear the
North Shore is not a priority
area for rapid transit, there
is a need to plan 30 to 40
years down the road.

Alderman Peter Powell,
who is the District’s GVRD
representative, said that the
motion was imprecise.

“The motion as it stands is
the froth on a glass of beer,”
he said.

He said that the growth
rates projected for the North
Shore showed that rapid
transit was not a pnority for
the areca.

But Powell said) moncy
was budgeted to improve the
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“We want to be part of this
thing (rapid transit planning) [el{p)
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Alderman John Lakes said.

District Mayor Don Bell
agreed that the motion had
to be changed but said
council should “request that
the GVRD include rapid
transit to the North Shore in
its planning.”

With the agreement of
Crist the motion was
changed along the lines that
Alderman John Lakes
suggested.

Councif decided to ex-
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North Shore and instruct its
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GVRD) on that basis.

Alderman Peter Powell
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