10 - Sunday, February 23, 1992 — North Shore News

City pushes for low level
road link through reserve

Squamish band has concerns about ‘ideai route’

THE COMPLETION OF a low level road to improve
traffic flow between West and North Vancouver is high on
the list of transportation priorities for North Vancouver

City.

The route, as outlined by the ci-
ty’s priorities list, would link
Esplanade to Welch Street via
First Street through the Squamish
Indian Band’s Mission Reserve
No. 1.

City Mayor Jack Loucks said
that although city staff see the
road through the reserve as ‘‘the
ideal route,’’ they realize the
Squamish band will have con-
cerns. :

The wording of the original low
level road motion was toned down
to consider the band’s position.
The band has previously opposed
having a road go through its land.

The proposed resolution called
for the “completion of the low
level route through Mission No.
1,"” but Ald. Stella Dean and Ald.
Bill Bell initiated changes to the
resolution. :

The motion passed Feb. 10 by
council has the city calling for the
“possible alignment of the low
level route through Mission
Reserve No. 1, upon completion
of successful negotiations with the
Squamish Indian Band.”’

“*Even in the early ’70s we were
trying to get that low level route
through the Mission Reserve No.
1,”’ said Dean.

Adding that she understands the
band’s concerns, she said,
“they've already got the trains go-
ing through the reserve.’

And Dean said the band has
had to deal with ever-increasing
traffic volumes going through its

By Pamela Lang
News Reporter

land.

*“*We want to be good
neighbors,”’ Dean said.

Bell was first to question the
political implications of appearing
to push for a road through the
reserve without consulting with
the band.

“We have to be very careful”

with the language that we use,”’
he said. ‘‘We have a long history
of taking their land away. We
have in the past come across, un-
fortunately, as bullies.”’

Other city transportation
priorities listed:

@ improved public transit (in-
cluding capid transit and a third
SeaBus);

@ construction of the highway in-
terchange at Westview Drive;

@ the development of bicycle and
pedestrian paths;

@ improvements to the Second
Narrows Bridge, including widen-
ing the bridge and upgrading its
northern bridgehead.

City engineer Chuck Gale said
the city’s transportation priorities
will be forwarded to the Greater
Vancouver Regional District for
inclusion in its list of regional
priorities that will be submitted to
the province.

East-west traffic flow on the
North Shore must be addressed,

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said Ald. Barbara Perrault.

Bell agreed that it is ‘‘getting
more and more difficult to get
around North Vancouver.”’

He said the priorities discussed
will improve city transportation.

The pedestrian and bicycle
paths were added to the priority
list at Ald. Barbara Sharp’s re-
quest.

“We have to incorporate those
whenever we are talking about
transportation,’’ she said.

City residents, she said, need to
be able to move throughout the
municipality on foot or by bicycle.

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