6 ~ Friday, January 2, 1987 - North Shore News News Viewpoint Bus bediam Less (traffic congestion, fewer parking problems Pus TRANSIT use should be encouraged. and lightened pollution are only some of the benefits. SDNESDA, > FRIDAY 1139 Lonsdale Ave. _ North Vancouver, 6.C. V7M 2H4 58,287 (averige, Wednesday ® Fridiy & Sunday} Display Advertising 980-0514 Classified Advertising 986-6222 Newsroom 985-2131 Distribution 986-1337 Subscriptions 986-1337 aiplabe fated pictures ah SDA DIVISION Publisher: Editor-in-Chief Managing Editor Advertising Director Peter Speck Noel Wright Barrett Fisher Linda Stewart eH, Paragragin 1 Ot tte ety Gre on AAG itt, HP PAN UKE HES Eniire contents © 1986 North Shore Free Prass Lid. All righls reserved Why, then, is public transit sometimes so inconve- nient to use? The most frustrating experience of ail in the life of the public transit user has to be the JUST missed transfer. it is unfortunately all too common to watch your connecting bus take off just as you are ap- proaching in another bus. That bus driver could not wait an extra two minutes for you and the other disgruntled passengers to disem- bark from the first bus and climb onto his. Why? Possibly because he is running on an im- possibly tight schedule and «vould be fate if he stopped to wait even two minutes at each transfer point. Possibly he doesn’t know if anyone will, in fact, wish to transfer, and he doesn’t want to wait around un- necessarily. Bus schedule planning must be flexible enough to take into account traffic pecularities and to allow bus drivers time to perform such small courtesies as waiting to see if anyone on the approaching bus wants to transfer. Also, if buses were equipped ‘with two-way radius, drivers could commaicate with one another. Bus driver A could call ahead to bus driver B: ‘I have three transfers. Will be there in two minutes.”’ At this time of year especially, the long unnecessary wait in the cold and rain because of a missed connec- tion can be particularly unpleasant. And it does nothing to encourage you to continue using public transit. questioned The Soviet Red Army is rampaging through Afghanistan, killing and maiming children and driving millions of innocents out of their country. ; The Soviet air force is flying long range bombers, armed with air- launched, nuclear cruise missiles, 125 miles off Canada’s coast. Meanwhile, the Liberal Party of Canada has passed resolutions to ban the testing of U.S. unarmed air-launched cruise missiles in Canada and declaring our country a nuclear weapons free zone. (This, incidentally, would force Canada to withdraw from INATO and desert our traditional allies if it were cver adopted as policy.) It’s a pity the Afghans didn’t think of declaring their country a you be jud ged’ Dear Editor: Regarding the letter you published from Angela Sheremeta (Sunday, Dec. 7), wherein she quoted Bible passages to justify her contempt for those unfortunate individuals who have been stricken with AIDS. and expect to have a world where peace can be a real- ity. i Each of us has a responsibility‘to do whatever we can to heal the problems we see in the world. Instead of condemning any situation or person that dismays us, thereby emphasizing only the negative aspects, we have the opportunity to express goodwill towards It’s a pity she closed her Bible after qucting those in difficulty -—- to send them our love as part of Romans, Chapter 1; for, in the first verse of Chapter 2, we are warned: “Therefore, thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.”’ That statement is repeated many times throughout the Bible: ‘‘Judge not, lest you be judged’”’. Or, said another way: whatever thoughts we send out will come back to us. We cannot seperate ourselves from our neighbors, the cure they so desperately need. If we truly want to be a part of the cure, and help to bring about a peaceful world, we must each do our purt to serve and help others, not only in our actions, but also in our thoughts and attitudes. Only when each of us radiates a peaceful, loving nature outwards to the world, will the conditions be established for world harmony. John Thomas North Vancouver Soviet Red Army free zone. What can one say about the Liberals' — and the NDP’s —- foreign and defence policies? Those whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad. David Somerville, president National Citizens’ Coalition Richmond ICBC A ‘JOKE’ Vander Zalm ‘courageous’ Dear Editor: B.C. Premier William Vander Zalm is a rare politician — a man of courage. He is a leader who has unashamedly put Canada first in his recent decision to negotiate the sale of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of - prefabricated homes to South Africa. The reaction cf the trendy left has been hysterical and predict- able. Jack Munro, president of the United Woodworkers of American, called the plan absurd | and Said B.C. would be a laughing stock. | wonder how many of the unemployed members of his union would consider Vander Zalm’s ef- forts to create jobs ‘‘absurd’’? Vander Zalm’s denunciation of sanctions makes sense. The federal sanctions against South Aftica are hypocritical. It makes no moral sense to boycott South Africa because it'is something less than a pure democracy, while we actively trade with such human rights abusers as the Soviet Union and Red China, and give hundreds of millions | of.’ dollars ‘in aid to, . repressive dictatorships in the Third Werld. Trade is the proper relationship among nations. Canada needs trade to survive. Our 1.2 million unemployed need trade for jobs. We hope that other provincial leaders will back Premier Vander Zalm and pressure Brian Mulroney to drop the hypocritical sanctions against South Africa, which cost Canadians jobs. Paul Fromm Research Director Citizens for Foreign Aid Reform Inc.’ Dear Editor: You are no doubt familiar with the services, or lack of services of the local branch of the Insurance Corporation of B.C. (ICBC). With all due respect you should be because from what I can discover, the entire driving public of North Vancouver look on it as a political joke on themselves. In a recent accident in which my car was totalled (and I was within an inch of a similar graveyard condition), I was told by one of these public servants, that I should obtain the names of three witnesses to establish my innocence. On one occasion I tried to get these people (ICBC) on the phone. I spent more than an hour, in, the morning listening to a voice telling me not to hang up, and mostly listening to insipid music. I suf- fered a similar fate in the after- noon before | got it through my skull that they were simply taking © me on a merry-go-round that was going where merry-go-rounds go — nowhere, There was more than this, of course, but more than anything, was the thin veneer of politeness covering a general attitude of in- solence on the part of these so- called public servants. | am almost afraid to go down to ICBC again for fear of biting one of them to death. in spite of false teeth. Norman J. Sewell North Vancouver