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4 - Sunday, October 30, 1988 - Lynn Valley Echo

THESE PEOPLE are a “Mitte wiser since they entered Lynn Valley
Centre’s recent Back-to-School draw. Pictured are draw winners: Joy
Bradley (left) accepting a 26-volume set of Compton's Encylopedia on
behalf of ber grandson; Heather Doran (front) accepting a globe on
behalf of her father; and Bruce Miller, winner of a set of “The World
-. | Around Us.” Leyda Molnar, manager of Lynn Valley Centre, is pic-
tured centre.

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KEITH ROAD AND LOWER MOUNTAIN HIGHWAY
Intersection accidents
have residents concerned

JAN HILLS hopes it won’t take a death for something to
be done about the traffic situation at Keith Road and lower

Mountain Highway.

After witnessing numerous acci-
dents at the intersection of Keith
Road and Mountain Highway, one
which involved her own husband,
Hills, a Lynn Valley resident, has
written to both local MLA Jack
Davis and North Vancouver
District Mayor Marilyn Baker ask-
ing that something be done about
the problem.

In the letter, which appeared in
the Sept. 28 issue of the North
Shore News, Hills wrote, ‘‘Keith
Road is a lead-on to the highway,
and it seems unbelievable that we
have traffic turning left_: including
buses, across highway traffic.”

“Lam writing...in the hope that
something is done before someone
is killed.*’

Residents living near the in-
tersection say they are tired of
hearing the constant sound of
squealing brakes.

“It’s ridiculous, Every time I
hear tires screeching I hold up my
hands to my ears,’’ said Lou Ken-
nedy, who lives on nearby Bruce
Street..“‘And during rush hour it’s
even worse — it’s unreal.’”

Kennedy says motorists driving

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east along Keith to Mountain
Highway generally look to their
teft to watch for highway traffic,

_and do not pay attention to traffic

turning left on to Keith from tower
Mountain Highway.

Hill’s husband’s car was hit this
summer when a car driving east on
Keith indicated, but did not turn
right onto lower Mountain High-
way.

Alex Milek, traffic technologist
for the District of North Van-
couver, reported a slight increase
in the number of accidents at Keith
Road and lower Mountain High-
way in 1983, but by 1986 only two
accidents occurred there.

“We've done a number of things
to improve driver visibility, in-
cluding trimming bushes. and
shrubs on the southwest corner of
lower Mountain Highway, which
has contributed to improving traf-
fic safety,”’ said Milek.

He said, however, that more
could be done to improve the site,

and that responsibility lies with the

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provincial highways department.
North Vancouver District Mayor
Marilyn Baker agreed that the in-
tersection is often congested and -
hazardous, and that a major -
review of the intersection is needed
because “‘it’s getting worse and

She said construction of. .
right-turning swing lane off Keith
onto lower Mountain Highway has
been considered but was found
unfeasible. .

“We're not getting anyw vhere
with the . provincial highways
department,” said a frustrated

‘Baker.

Hills, meanwhile, says building
an overpass at the intersection of
Mountain Highway and Keith
Road, and a road between the
North ; Shore Winter Club and
Kodak could solve the problem,
but it’s a matter of moucy.

“When someone's killed it will”
become a priority,”’ she said.

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