10 - Sunday. October 18, 1998 - North Shore News north {AIL BOX Shore news Bewildered hy bridge letters Dear Editor: Pim somewhat beutldercd: by Lions Gue Project’ Media Director) John Dovle’s Ocr 4 letter to the North Shore News. Mr. Doyle paints a fairly rosy pic ture — he’s good at his job — but he tails to mention that much of Timothy Renshaw's information came front his (Dovle’s) office. The intention is to cut away 4 32-toot section of the deck, lower that section to dbarge on the water below, then raise a new, Wider section and fasten it in place; all between 8 p.m. and 6 a.m. nights. during which the bridge will be closed to vehicles. Just think about thar for a moment. Now convinee me that not only will all that happen to the split minute, but it will not disrupt shipping teatfic to or from the harbour, Impossible! [attended the consultation meetings at Mr. Doyte’s oftice June 8, Aug. 11) which were designed to identify and mit- igate “foreseen” problems created by the project. Doyle is right, everyone attend- lng Was concerned and cooperative, and so they should be. However, perhaps he didn’t hear com- ments like “this is a nightmare” or “we should have a tunnel first,” from ovo of the participants (Aug. 11). Sure, vou can use Second Narrows or the SeaBus during closures, but this is EXCLUSIVE BRANDS & STYLES at mc ke) th fess thse Only *140 per month’ oniy a Band-Aid and bear in aind how much tana is using that route nes when there isa “police incident” or accident on Lions Gate. Yow have one every night of the week. The real disruption will he ta: the schedules and reutines of thousands of individuals and businesses throughout the ning to i2 months of work (Sept. 1999 to) mid/laie 2000), We have not even mentioned the work on the cause way and north-cnd approaches. When is aovone, politicians and planners alike, going to develop some vision! The Lions Gate rehab, on its own, is fundamentally wrong. We need a three: Jane tunnel, with LRT provision, first, then roure the trattic through the tunnel while the bridge is being rehabilitated. Work can continue 24 hours a day to minimize disruption snd shorten the time frame overall. The provincial government was pre- pared to proceed on a tunnel/bridge combination until the three ceuncils tor the North Shore failed te support them for purely political reasons. Mr. Doyle is weil aware of this. Give vour head a shake Mr. Dovle — a0 construction project of this magnitude goes off without a hitch! 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