THERE’S much more
than fast ferry wake
rocking boats in the
once picturesque hamier
of Horseshoe Bay.

The hard-of-hearing BC
Ferry Crown Corp. bi chemoth
is stirring again and it's waking
up the neighbours.

Little wonder: the Corp.
wants to construct monster
housing to beat all monster
housing it the Horseshoe Bay
neighbourhood.

dts plans <all for upwards of
$27 million to be invested in,
.). &mong other items, a three-
storcy parkade, a $12 million
_ holding compound and a $5.5
million ticket and administra-
~tion building — additions to.
terminal structures that have
been in the Bay since BC’
Ferries tok over the old Black
Ball ferry: Vancouv cr Island

ested in’any’ expansion’ of.
Horsest

‘lion into an expansion that, :
would

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Ferries aciiview.

become a terminal illness for
Horseshoe Ray as a communi-
Ww

Already approximately
eight million people per year
travel through the Bay's ferry
facilitivs; what was a 1 booming
Summuerfime. resort is now one
of the busiest ferry passengey’
ports in Crrad

Its staside community
charactet is fast disappcaring; it
inicreased BC

Horseshoe Bay
mighyingic otherwise.
“But their overall benefit -
from: Vancouver Island ferry’

- traffic is debatable. P'd wager
*, that less than 10% of that traf:
ficadds anvthing ac ail ta the
Horseshoe Bay economy, -
Most of it is just passing»

.. through, bringiiig with it lctle

” more than increased pollution -

ind traffic chaos.“
And the Ferry Corp., fi
ing fast in a $1 bl billion sea of
d ink with the: NDP govern-..
ment it the helm; has run so
far off iii ' with such adven-

ny Bee alternatives
roving ferry ‘traffic to and:

. me include building a

rry terminal on Jona Island +

to- Vancouver Island bridge
link :

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provide the pasate and:
: fast fervies

sense.

If Prince Edward Island,
with a population snraller than
the North Shore's, qualities for
a billion-dollar 13-km bridge
to Canada’s mainland, then
surely Vancouver Island
qualities for same.

Horseshoe Bay has done its
time as a Vancouver
Island /Mainland highway fink.

There are safey and more
efficient options available that
need consideration before any
more terminal money is sunk
into what is already a danger-
ously congested North Shore
harbour.

West Vancouver's new
council needs to make
Horseshoe Bay’s future a top

priority. -
aaa
Other news flashes:
Is it my imagination or are

“the same pundits and

blowhards who were so appre-
ciative of the BC Human.
Rights machinery for chewing
up Doug Collins now ques-.

tioning the quasi-legal process

when it comes to more fash-

~~ jonable victims?

The. case of UBC professor

©, Don Dutton has furrowed
“more than a few deep-thinking
- media brows. :

Why now? 2 | -
it was the same human’

rights machinery in the Collfis:”

case that denied truth as a
defence, that ruled opinion to
be in-violation of weasel-word-

‘ed government statute, that
“denied any form of appeal,

that rolled across judicial

" precedent at every turn to

arrive at the government-dic-
tated result.
Now, however, the head ia

the human rights vice is a uni-.:

~“"reeo,

versity professor instead of an
abrasive columnist with dan-
geraus opinions.
A safer target to defend, |
guess,
900
The ilegal migrams have
the nght idez in staging a
hunger strike to protest delays
in processing their refugee
claims. Canadians frem coast
ast should join them. But
instead of protesting torpid
refugee processing we should
all down dining tools to
protest the entire Canadian
iminigration system and the
federal government’s inability
to make any meaningful
changes in ir. Ever.
— trenshaw@direct.ca

rmiaibox .
Reporter's
efforts .

faud ded

" Dear Editor:
Martin Millerchip deserves *
ition for his exception” .

ally fine picce.on district issues

(Sunday, Oct, 31): Ir’s not
often we sce such weli- written *

insight picces on local civic

affairs. His research on the |

article’ shines . through.
Unbiased and analytical, it’s a
inode .6f Iccal’ political com-
mentary. I'm grateful for his
contribution on this necessary
subject.

Thanks and a tip o of the hat.
Trevor Carolan

., North Vancouver ~

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