8 - Friday, September 2, 1988 - North Shore News

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Calli to save bus depot

Dear Editor: Fred McCormack Independent Canadian Transit

B.C. Transit wants to garage its President, Loca! #1 Union

North Vancouver buses in Bur-
naby. Transit has told us it will
save $565,000 per year by the
move. What BCT has not told us is
that this saving also can be realized
by moving the buses to its Lloyd
Avenuc facility in North Van-
couver,

The savings come from reducing
personnel, climinating operating
maintenance and repair costs of
the extra facility, and grants for
taxes for the extra property. It is a
good management decision to
scrap the unneeded facility.

It is a terrible community deci-
sion to unnecessarily move our
buses out of town. This particular-
ly when the extra cost of running
the whole fleet back to North
Vancouver will cost $300,000 per
year in the extra travel time, fuel
and maintenance costs.

The present Third Street garage
occupies 2.7 acres holding 76
buses. Eight buses can be serviced
simultaneously. The Lloyd Avenue
garage occupies: 3.27 acres main-
taining only 22 buses plus six
spares. Six buses can be serviced
simultancously but an additional
bay with hoist capability is hidden
under the office/lounge area in
this modern medular building.
Lloyd Avenue can maintain the
entire North Shove fleet within one
month. Even alternate office space
exists above the garage.

If the adjacent road allowance is
developed to allow a ‘‘flow
through’? parking pattern” the
present Lloyd Avenue facility can
garage up to 200 buses. As is, tur-
ning buses within the yard, Lloyd
Avenue can easily handle the entire
North and West Vancouver fleets,
both maintenance and storage.

Buses based in Burnaby depend
upon the Second Narrows Bridge
to get into service. One fost load
from a semi-trailer on an icy mor-
ning could well result in no buses
and have the whole town late for
work. Isolated slowdowns will add
to the uncertainty of any bus get-
ting into service. Any accident, the
PNE, imagine the effect of the
construction of the Cassiar Cor-
ridor.

Our emergency response capa-
bility includes using buses for mass
evacuation and mass ambulance
service. If the buses are out of
town, it will be too late to discuss
with Transit the loss of life
resulting from inadequate am-
bulance or evacuation capability.

The time to act is now. Councils
have responded angrily to Transit’s
insensitivity. Sign a Save Our
Buses petition to tell this callous
Crown Corporation that we, the
people, disagree with moving our
buses out of town.

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