FRIDAY

June 7, 1996

FERN STREET

Traffic
trauma
triggers
protest

BY IAN NOBLE
News Reporter

TWENTY-SIX Fern Street
folks joined forces
Wednesday night to halt traf-
fic and ministry plans to
widen Mountain Highway at
the residents” expense.

Residents criticized North Vancouver
District and the Ministry of
Transportation and Highways for what
they call the bureaucracies’ evasiveness
in dealing with local concerns about a
plan to close the Keith Road exit to
Highway ! and open an on-ramp from
Fern Street.

Their collective patience snapped
Wednesday at 5:45 p.m. That's when
they discovered workers had removed
and paved a sidewalk on the east side of
Mountain Highway, beside a home,
instead of the west side beside SeyLynn
Park as the district had indicated.

Leanne Marshall, who lives in the
home beside the now-paved-over side-

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FERN Street's Neal Raney led residents to the street to force workers to stop changes on Mountain Highway that residents
say contravene what the district had told them. Area homeowners aren't happy with plans that will increase area traffic.

BY !AN MOBLE

News Reporter

THOUSANDS of North
Shore drivers awoke
Thursday to a commuting
nightmare as work on the
Second Narrows Bridge
began in carnest.

Trucker Jatin Shepherd, his trac-
tor-trailer unit firmly lodged in Third
Street traffic near St Andrews
Avenue, took it albin stride as he sur-
seyed the scene. He assessed the
lraffie Situation as being beter dian
he thought it would be,

“Because, traditionally, the high-
ways department in’ B.C. really
screws up big tinte.” he said.

IUs not exaetly a ringing endorsement for the
Ministry of Transportation and Highways, which had
warned of traffic delays and tirged commuters to: car
pool or take transit.

Between 8 aan. and Y aan. Phorsday. dhe first aiorn-
ing of bridge work, tific was backed up te Lonsdale on
Iighway 1. to Adderley on Keith Road, to St, Andrews
on Third and to Kirkstone on Mountain Highway.

Reports said traffic for the Lions Gate Bridge was
jammed to Hamilton on Marine Drive on the north side

A tow truck rescues a damaged car from the snaking traffic
tie-up on Highway 1 that stretched back to Lonsdale Avenue.

and Barrard at Georgia on the south side. Mount
Seymour Parkway commuters fad an extra half-hour
wail,

“Can the bastards.” yeHed Craig Cioodmurphy as he
drove by, He said he can’t believe anybody accountable
would allow the work to be done during working aod
cormmutiag hours, Highways said the work would have
taken four sears if it had been done at mght

Shepherd added he’s paid bs the munmiber of fouds fy

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Pregnar,”
cyclist hit
at crossing

BY ROBERT GALSTER
Contributing Writer

A pregnant woman's
brush with disaster
has left her husband
quesuioning the
Ministry of
Transportation and
Highway’s (MoTH)
decision-making
process.

Last Tuesday, two days
before the Second Narrows
rehabilitation project's
scheduled: start date, Brenda
Kind was struck by a car as

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