THE North Vancouver Chamber of
Commerce is opposed to future
tolls for Lions Gate Bridge.

Said past chairman Stuart McLaughlin:

_ “The chamber first pave notice to the provin-
cial government of its position on tolls in

May of 1994. It is important that we now

have agreement and support of the three

North Shore: municipalities’ ‘and that we are

all speaking as one voice.”

He said. that any additional . barrier to
moving people over the bridge will have a
negative impact on North Shore businesses.

“The premise the government has taken
that there is a free alternative — the Second
Narrows — is false. The tourists coming to
the North Shore, they don’t know about the
Second Narrows bridge. They only’ know
about the one we promote, the Lions Gate

Bridge,” - McLaughlin said

As president of Grouse Mountain,
McLaughlin knows directly of the impedi-
ments already posed by bridges. “There are
six to eight million tourists coming to
Vancouver and yet we’re only getting a mil-
lion and ‘a half to two million here on the
North Shore.

“The bridge isa barrier. If we make that
barrier even stronger, then even fewer people

will get here.”
More than 800,000 visitors make the: ps

_ to Grouse Mountain annually — 60% of thems

come over the Lions Gate.” Bridge
McLaughlin estimates traffic to the “mountains, §
alone will contribute approximately $2 :
lion in tolls cach year.’ :
He said Grouse could lose as much ‘as $i
million annually if the bridge is tolled.
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