A3 - Wednesday, Oct. 14, 1981 - North Shore News

CONSTRUCTION work
in the 100 block of West

13th Saeet in North.
Vancouver continues to
plague motorists who
must make awkward .
detours to reach-
Lonsdale and _ Lions _
Gate. Hospital. -The

original road has been
ripped up to enable

a new base before the
fresh paving is laid.
(Terry Peters photo)

work crews to put down a

AFTER CHILD’S DEATH

Lane closure mulled

THE DEATH of a little
girl at a North Van-
couver intersection
may be a factor in
resolving a 13-year-old
issue of whether a
public lane barricaded
by a townhouse
development is finally
allowed to remain
closed.

The lane has been closed
illegally, City Engineer Alan
Phillips told City council
Monday night.

But to open it to the public
may cause a traffic hazard at
an extremely busy 1n-
tersection where a five-year-
old girl was killed recently.

The lane, which allows
public access to Westview
Drive near West 28th Street.

has been closed by
Cedarbrooke Townhouse
Development on and = off
since the townhouses were
built in 1967.

At that time” council
authorized the use of the
lane by the development It
now looks hke a private
driveway belonging to the
townhouse

But the City never actually
allowed the lane to. be

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City Engineer Alan Phillips,
and complaints about the
closure have been received
since 1968.

The latest chapter in the
history of the lane was
written when City workers
pulled down a fence last
week which had closed the
lane at Westview Drive.

The *fence had been in
place for a year, and the
result, an unannounced
delegation of Cedarbrooke
residents told council, was a
dramatic drop in vandalism.

“We no longer have to get
new aerials for our car, or
have to get our tires pumped
up again after someone lets
the air out of them,” said one
resident.

“The vandalism problem
has been much better since
the fence was put up a year
ago.”

The lane. when open. is
used by children going to
nearby Larson Elementary
School.

Re-opening the lane to
Westview Drive would be a
safety hazard, City Engineer
Phillips told council Monday
night

Cars turning in and out of
the lane would disrupt Craffic
in’ front of the Westview
Drive and West 2&th Street
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A five-year-old — girl,
Rebecca Ann Townsend,
was killed September 28 by a
car while using the crosswalk
at the intersection.

And even if the lane was
opened only to pedestrians,
Phillips said, schoolchildren
would be encouraged to
walk down Westview Drive
to the lane instead of using
the quieter West 28th Street.

In spite of this safety

aspect, it is still illegal to
fence the lane without
permission, council told
residents.

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