Dear Editor:

As far. back as August 1988,
your paper published a visionary
News Viewpoint editorial dealing
with the escalating traffic prob-
lems in the recCentre Lonsdale
and courthouse area. The piece
stated that in keeping with the
public-use facilities of this area,
the city must make the traffic pat-
terns fit the facilities, not have the
facilities, their users and area res-
idents fit in with an ill-considered
commuter-route traffic situation.

While speeding traffic barrelling
through this public-use is an
everyday occurrence, it caused a
very chaotic and dangerous
scenario on May 24 and 25 during
the recent Festival of the Arts.
The 100-block East 23rd was
advertised in the Jocal press as be-

Pregnant
shouldn’t

Dear Editor:

Catherine Atyeo, in her article,
“Pregnancy police on patrol,’*
seems reluctant to acknowledge
the fact that a pregnant woman,
in making decisions about her
own body has also to think of the
body of the child she is carrying
in her womb.

Decisions to smoke or drink af-
fect not just her, but also her un-
born child, and although the
Supreme Court has ruled that the
unborn child is not a person,
anyone with any common sense
knows that it is and that it has the
right to be protected from abuse
~— including the ultimate abuse of
abortion.

MAILBOX
Lonsdale recCentre traffic chaotic

ing closed to traffic from noon,
May 23 to 6 p.m. May 25. By
noon, May 24, the road was open
again with festival goers dodging
cars to cross 23rd Street to reach
certain events.

On inquiry, the city engineering
dept. stated they had opened the
road again in the middle of the
festival because the complaint was
made that traffic was passing
around the barricades to access
Lonsdale.

Who is to be given iirst con-
sideration? The taxpayers and
participants who use these
premises for their business or rec-
reation or the commuting
motorists who have a highway one
and a half blocks north?

It is time the city engineering
dept. realized that pedestrian safe-

women
smoke

That is why even she admits to
fecling extreme revulsion at the
sight of a pregnant woman smok-
ing — because she cares about the
health of the baby, as well as the
mother.

I think we all have a responsi-
vility to educate others concerning
the damage that a child in’ the
womb can suffer as a result of the
ingestion of harmful substances.
Provided this is done with charity,
ft think parents would welcome the
attempt to ensure the birch of a
healthy baby.

J. White
West Vancouver

Pageant thanks restaurant

Gear Editor:

{ would like to take this oppor-
tunity on behalf of myself and the
Committee members to thank
Judy and the staff at Dino's Res-
taurant on Lonsdale for the ex-
cellent brunch and courteous ser-
vice given to all the contestants of
the Miss North Shore Pageant and
Committee on July 7 at no cost to
us.

Dino's has been providing this
service for the past four years to
the -contestants of the pageant,
and it is greatly appreciated.

Once again thank you, Dino's
Restaurant, and great big bou-
quets to you, Judy, and all the
staff.

Mae Morris
North Vancouver

ty must take precedence over
vehicular convenience at any time
and most emphatically in a recre-
ation-oriented area. Other Lower
Mainland municipalities plan traf-
fic patterns ta avoid oar severely
curtail traffic in high-use people
areas as a matter of policy! why
is this not so in the City of North
Vancouver?

The city engineers and planners
must establish an acceptable plan
for this area which contains the
rec centre, the courthouse, the Al-
liance Church and a_ well-
established residential
neighborhood. At all times of the
day many joggers, walkers and
cyclists move through the area
because of the green space further
east with fine views over the city.

Sunday, July 21, 1991 - North Shore News - 7

‘The Folkfest, First Nite and the
Arts Festival activities clearly in-
dicate that the city needs an open
air plaza with surrounding facili-
ties in which to hold these events
and the rec centre is it! The com-
muter traffic must be encouraged
to use the highway to make the
area safer and a whole lot more
pleasant for all of us.

Viire Daniels
North Vancouver

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