14 — Friday, August 29, 1997 — North Shore News

Lawyer lobbies for bike access to highway §

By Martin Mitlerchip

Contributing Writer
miller@nsnews.com

CYCLING on the
Upper Levels Highway
is far safer than compet-
ing with heavy traffic
on the much narrower
Marine Drive corridor,
says one bicycling com-
muter.

But West Vancouver lawyer
Paul Hundal has run afoul’ of
the long arm of the RCMP’s
Port Mann Freeway Patrol.

Hundal appeared before
North Vancouver District
Council Monday to press for
designation of a bicycle route
between Lloyd Avenue and
Lonsdale Avenue on the
Upper Levels,

Hundal, who is a director
of the Society for Promoting
Environmental Conservation
(SPEC), has previously
appeared before council t-
successfully lobby for the
importance of making the
Westview Interchange bicycle
friendly

Bur now that the inter-

change is virtually complete,
Hundal says the RCMP appear °

to have a new directive to tick-
et cyclists using that section of
the highway.

Hundal collected his $86
ticket August 4  berween
Lonsdale and Westview on the

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westbound shoulder.

He savs he was told he
would be arrested on the spor
and charged with the criminal

offence of obstructing justice if

he was seen riding on the high-
way again.

Hundal says he will pursue
a police complaint, given that a
second speeding ticker for
motorists does not come with

criminal charges for obstruc-
tion.

In the meantime, said
Hundal, Pemberton Heights
stadents who walk and cycle
along the highway between
their ncighborhaod — and
Carson Graham high school
tisk tickets when school starts
on Sept. 2.

Bicyeles have been allowed

on the Upper Levels between
Horseshoe Bay and Capilano
Road for more than 20 years.

Hundal would like to sce
this designation continue
along the highway to the Lynn
Valley exit. He dismisses as
“outtageous™
Transportation and Highways
foot-dragging until the high-
way is upgraded as far as the

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Second Narrows bridge.

“There is no reason why at
this time the highway can not
be designated for cyclists
berween Lloyd Avenue and
Lyon Valley. The stretch
between Capilano Road and
Lloyd Avenue can be bypassed
by going along a side road
through Pemberton Heights,”
says Hundal.

Council did not debate the
possibility of a bicycle route on
the highway to Lynn Valley.
But council did unanimously
endorse that MOTH immedi-
ately designate by signs that
bicycles and pedestrians be
permitted to travel on the
paved shoulder terween Lloyd
and Lonsdale i1 both diree-
dons.

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