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No new crossing
take the bus!

Dear Editor:

Third crossing? Fourth crossing
you mean, Docs anyone remember
why the SeaBus was started?

People believe that with yet
another crossing, the same
number of cars would convenient-
ly be distributed between the ex-
isting routes and those painful
delays before and after work
would be avoided.

As almost every single large city
in North America has witnessed,
this simply doesn't happen.

The addition of another bridge,
major freeway or tunnel offers
only a quick-fix solution and
provides only a temporary hiatus
from the inevitable gridlock. As
urban planners all across North
America have discovered, an extra
crossing or sudden increase in
automobile capacity means more
people start driving their cars and
using the extra route, and before
you know it you’re right back at
square one.

The only logical solution is to
get people out of their cars and
onto the bus even if it means a
parking tax, a bridge toll or clos-
ing off the entire downtown core
to public traffic.

! applaud Vancouver City
Council and the new parking tax.
My only fear is that it is too little
and too fate.

We extol] the virtues of living in
Vancouver and pay tip service to
the need for keeping it clean. We
pretend to be deeply concerned
about pollution and crowded cities
and point the finger at Los
Angeles, Chicago, New York or
even Toronto. Now we have the
chance to do something positive
and not make the same mistake of
almost every other metropolis in
North America.

Wake up, Vancouver! Take the
bus!

Hugh Nevin
North Vancouver

Drought sending signal
about long-term benefits

Dear Editor:

This summer’s drought in our
watersheds should be another
signal to all the GVRD mayors to
vote against logging of the old-
growth in the watershed areas.

Believe it or not, big trees can
actually pull water out of clouds
passing through a forest. Forest
Service ecologists in Oregon
discovered that 35% of the annual
precipitation in a forest section
came from fog that had condens-
ed onto the needies of tall trees
and had dripped down onto the
forest floor and into streams.

Their study proved that old-

growth forests can wring many
inches of ‘fog drip’? out of the
sky each year. Their report also
Stated that 1% times as much
water evaporates from exposed
clearcuts as from the shaded
ground of a mature forest.

GVRD mayors need to under-
stand the long-term benefits of
having a forested watershed and
vote against the timber lobbying
groups who are out to protect a
few jobs.

Ross Muirhead
Friends of the Watershed
North Vancouver

NV seawall cost prohibitive

Dear Editor:

The cost of a seawalk from
Cates Park to Deep Cove would
be staggering, and as a district
taxpayer I am sure there are more
justifiable projects to spend our
tax dollar on.

The biggest obstacle would be
Cove Cliff, which in parts is near-
ly vertical. To construct this
walkway wide enough for young,
old and infirm would require
tremendous engineering and
construction costs.

Ambleside, by comparison, is

on flat sand.

The property appropriation
costs would be enormous. This
alone would keep council busy for
years. Residents of North Van-
couver District have two major
shoreline parks, Cates and
Panorama, which have plenty of
room for all.

Af the district requires a cheap
seawalk why not start from east
of the Hooker chemical plant to
the Burrard Indian Reserve?

G.B. Fenwick
North Vancouver

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