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* OUTSIDE Chris ;
~ Coukell’s Hope Road
home, flowers gracing a
stop sign reflect a
tragedy he doesn't want
to see repeated,

~— Coukell sald that on

» Sunday, a Toyota dd nin

wt hrowgh vatop sign at Flape
ancl Garden and was broad:

ve sided bya vans.

‘The driver ofthe van, 40-
“year-okl North Vancouver
fither af four Dotplas Folk,
was killed,

Coukell was at home when

the accident occurred, Hea

* “galled Oot Land then ran out:

tier put up at Garden and

side to see ithe could help,
There was nothing he
“could do for Falk, but now
“he's trving to get the traffic
i. pattern changed to prevent
4 more aceldents,
_ Coukell, who's daunehed a
petition drive, § sald the inter:
section at Garden aud Hane {s
the site ofa Jot of close calls,
“IPeven a fraction restilted
in accidents, we would have
. Smergency Vehicles here all the
time,” he said. “it’s a really *

to be living in a society where -

_ tombstone politics seem to”

tule ana § somebody has to die,

before something happens.”
-The'prablem, he said, is -

™ that Garden “Avenue is being, ;

A “used as a high-speed cut-off
_ between Marine Drive and

‘Capilano Road.
Often, he’ said, Hope Road

“= users crossing Garden j ignore.
“© the stop sign,

- Ultimately, he wants a bar-

Utunfortunate fact but we seem

NL. Van residents wage road wat

~ Fatality sparks fight to block Garden Avenue

Lope to cu dane ull'to
tec trate,
three-way Hnterseetion

With stop signs on dich corner

would replice the through
road an harden to slaw tratile
dnd make drivers think before
entering the intersection, he
sald,

Coukell sald he wants to

wake people up: Maly is ares:

{dental nelghhorhood and wwe
don't want people cng, |

\throtigl tn?
"The battle belng waged by

“We seent to be |

‘living in a society
where tombstone.
politics seem to-.
rule and some-
body has to dic
before something
happens.”

= Hope Road resident

Toukell, a one-year resident of

the street, is not news, In fact,”

the ink on a neighborhood
presentation to council was:
arely dry before the accident
occurred; Residett Datia
Guttlieb-Tanaka has watked ;
on the residents" position, <
which will be resented to

* North Vancouver District

comune at a June 23 meeting.
plan to tell council of

“their rae ‘struggle with the -
* district's engineering depart:
ment to resolve what they per-

ceive as a growing traftic prob-
lemon the street.

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» Nikkel sali

Ty

"y ‘hey say the road wat
upgraded to a40-foat wilt
and calleetar cond status (rom
secant status without the”
reall knowledge in 1986,
They worry (hae havlag
alah" yun through the
aren will \eterorte the weds
resitencial fisage and fead 10
more yedevelopment propos:
iil, District ainager.of trate
ny erly serviced Nori:
the clstrlet tracks
lotersections with three or,
more aecldents ha year, The:
hw! period checked =ealender |
1995 = revealed tess than
three aceldents at the Intersee:
tlon, he sald, lg
__ Previous requests to close: fe
of Garden have been rebutted
because it's Hot appropriate to =
close Garden — an important
link between Marine Drive and
Capilano, he sald, ;
Nikkel said closing off rr: aeiae rein
Garden would delay traflie not . yee
headed downtown during CHRIS Coukell wants to change traffic patterns outside his home at ‘Hope. Road
peak periods, und Garden Avenue, the site, ofa a deadly automobile accident last Sunday, oh
He sald the change in clas: ath = cally
sification to collector status did Hope the driver.ran through,» eT ae ;
not change the road's flinetion But Coukell said the step
‘at all, but was the result of sign was visible before the accel
updating the road classification dent, A. trust find has-been,
system, opened for the Folk family at
Nikkel said the Hope and) the Royal Bank in Edgemont. :°
Garden intersection will be. People wishing to contribute to.
investigated and a report will” the find can’ donate cash ‘or:
goto council, Such a study is - make out “cheques to’ David
customary after accidents such China, Fotk’s father: in-law, and:
as Sunday's, he said. wo, ask that it be: put in the trust“
wo Since the accident, the dis- I fund. .
trict has cut back shrubbery to Police” said , the icident

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