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Bridge talk goes nowhere

By Jolanda Waskito

_ Contributing Writer

- NORTH Vancouver
City Council’s testy
debate over the fate of
the Lions Gate bridge
ended up without
agreement and without
a plan of action,

Council
discussed
the First
Narrows
bridge
after
receiving a
letter
from
; North

Vancouver District Mayor
Don Bell.

The letter stated that dis-
trict council decided on June 2
to support the provincial gov-
ernment in their default plan
— mainly to rehabilitate Lions

‘brid jin
the yap

Gate bridge by widening the

three lanes and building sepa-
rated sidewalks at the
province’s budgeted $70 mil-
lion.

Bell also said his council
opposed any “additional finan-
cial burden including tolls.”

Coun. Darreli Mussatto
and Mayor Jack Loucks were
alone in agreeing with North
Vancouver District’s position.

“I think the three North
Shore councils should stick
together,” Loucks said.

Mussatto said the default
plan is a good idea.

“The expanded capacity of
single occupancy vehicles (on
Lions Gate} is going to impact
us,” he said. “The North
Shore doesn’t want any more
growth anyway.”

Many councillors were
skeptical of the provincial gov-
ernment’s plan for Lions Gate
to begin with.

On May 28,
Transportation Minister Lois
Boone kicked off a process to
gather consensus on the how

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to fix the ailing bridge.
Participants of the process
include the cities of Vancouver
and North Vancouver, the dis-
tricts of North and West
Vancouver, the Greater
Vancouver Regional District,
the Vancouver Park Board and
Squamish First Nation.

The group has met only
once. The minister has said
that if the group don’t come
to agreement the defaule plan
will be implemented.

Coun. Barbara Perrault
didn’t say whether she was tor
or against the default pian but
said she wasn’t “dancing to
the district’s rune.”

Perrault read parts of a let-
ter written by North
Vancouver-Lonsdale MLA
Kacherine Whittred, and
signed by all three other
North Shore MLAs, to North
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“The collective efforts of
the three mumepal council
and many others on the North
Shore will be compromised by
your actions.”

Coun. Barbara Sharp said
she wondered how all parties
concerned could reach agree-
ment over whar ro do with the
bridge.

“L think it was doomed in
the beginning. If you're going
ro have four lanes, there's
going to have to be 2 coll.”

Loucks said thar if council
doesn’t want colls, then the
default option should be sup-
ported.

“[don’r think we're going
to be able co bargain with the
government.” he said.

Unable two put forth a
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