“safety,” .

Causeway cause hacked

Marcie Good
Contributing Writer
NORTH Vancouver
District council will
back its neighbour in
a fight to widen the
lanes of the Stanicy
‘Park causeway.

‘On Nov. 8, council voted
.5-1: to endorse = West
Vancouver District’s

» Supreme Court application
_. for an injunction that would
stop the $100-million Lions

Gate Bridge upgyade project -

until the causeway jane width
 issue’is resolved. .
2 “This is’a matter of ablic

Decrin,
posed the motion. :

“The lanes “through

~ Stanley Park are-so. narrow -

hat if rwo buses are passing
each’ other. it is extremely
‘dangerous. |.

“Somebody | is going to
“mirror. if: not’. some-

thing else.” :-
ffic lanes on the. Lions
Gate Bridge will:be widened
metres (11.5 fr) from
m (9.5 ft.)-in accordance

ip the hec!
“the - additior * lane

_said Coun. Glenys.
-Robb,. who —pro-

to. figh'
‘ solution,” his suggestions of
’ 3. tunnel or another SeaBus -
route had “ali been ridiculed,
and the biggest ridiculer was

motion, said he was “not so
cager to join in the condem-
nation of the people of
Vancouver city council and
the parks board, as many of
the others in this council
are.”

He argued that the cause-
way would be no more dan-
gerous than other roads if
people would obey the post-
ed 60 km/h speed limit.

“Why not make it four
lancs? Why not six?” he said,

“The parks board has
jurisdiction, and Vm not
willing ro bash them for the
sake of people who think it is
their God-given right to
destroy the environment for
their own convenience.”

Widening the lanes, he
added, will not help to soive
the traffic problem.

While “desperately trying
t for another: traffic

the.» District. of West

. Vancouver.”

Coun. Trevor Carolan,
however, declared he would
“willingly join in the castiga-
tion of ‘E parks board,” for

., what he called an “appalling:
: ly narrow self-interest.”

The position taken by the”
board he described 5 “vote-

“fishing atthe expense of
“public safety.”

. West - Vancouver ‘council’

‘has received the’ “endorse:
ment of the municipalities of. .

Whistler. and Lions Bay.

Mayor” Pat -Boname: says:

she has received many letters.

support, and ” ‘she’ was

pleased to hear that North
Vancouver District had also
signed on,

“Je will help,” she said.
“Ich say it’s not just West
Vancouver saying. this, it’s
the greater North Shore.

“It’s tourists and com-
invters and people going up
to Whistler.”

West Vancouver council
directed its municipal sotici-
tor several weeks ago to lonk
into the Supreme Court
application.

Boname said that work
was almost complete, and
she expects io file the appli-
cation in about a week.

“Pm absolutely sure that
once we get the information
we'll go ahead with it,” she
said.

“We've tried everything
else. We've tricd being rea-
sonable, we've tied talking
to the parks board. This is
really desperation.”

Let ws send d
uour old eyeglasses
-to the developing world.

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Wednesday, November 17, 1999 — North Shore Rews -— 23

ON ELECTION DAY
SATURDAY, NOV 20th
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Carolanne
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for a
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Are our forested lands
above 1206 feet in
danger of development?

Help Carolanne protect them ae
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