A7 - Sunday, December 16, 1984 - North Shore News

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Lights save lives Lawyers ads OK’ed at last

Dear Editor:

Your editorial ‘“‘Signal
Nonsense’’ of December 2nd,
1984, describes what you call

‘the nonsense of
Ambleside’s new traffic
Signals at 14th and 16th
Streets’’, and = asserts that
‘Many West Vancouverites
wonder why they are needed
at this (ime.”’

Let me speak for the
pedestrians. They are needed
for us, to save our lives and
limbs. Be we ever so nimble
we have good reason to fear
tor our safety each time we
use a non-signalled § cross-
walk in this Community. For
here we have a considerable

percentage of rude and
reckless drivers who rush
madly through Ambleside

and beyond along Bellevue
and Marine.

Such drivers treat
pedestrians as though they
were flagged poles on a ski
slope. For, while about to
drive over an occupied cross-
walk they try to beat the
walker approaching the cen-
tre, almost running over his
toes, while from the other
direction they almost clip his
heels. On a black, wet winter

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evening, as the commuters
speed home from their work-
places and pubs, you might
find this alarming.

From personal observation
from a car and from the
ground some of the lights are
ill-timed but seem to be im-
proving. But surely the little
delays involved do not war-
rant the shrill cnes of your
editorial or of those | have
heard from people accustom-
ed to uninterrupted passage
while rushing off to their
shopping or social events.

The alleged ill-effects of
the new lights on the business
of our merchants seems to me
exaggerated nonsense. e.g.
When driving West, with no
left turns, what does one do
to reach a store on the South
side of Marine? Anyone ac-
customed to driving in a City
anywhere will turn North,
drive around a block and
thence South. Perhaps con-
gested parking will oblige one
to walk a block or two. Pity!

Alas, Sir, our traffic, com-
plete with some odd drivers
and walkers, is increasing.
Qur community is growing.
Let us grow with it.

David L. Mathieson
West Vancouver

Dear Editor:

I] thought you might be in-
terested in this recent
announcement made by the
Benchers of the Law Society
of British Columbia on the
issue of lawyer advertising.
This was published in the
September Benchers’
Bulletin.

| have a natural interest in
this topic since | was the first
lawyer in Canada lo advertise
and was involved in a lengthy
discipline and court battle
with the Benchers over this
issue. Also Chris Lloyd.
when he was with your paper,
showed a great deal of in-
terest in my case and the issue
of lawyer advertising and ran
a great many articles about it

It would now appear that
the Law Society has come a
full 360 degrees and 1s now
endorsing lawyer advertising
and even wishes to become
“tthe leader in the field of
lawyer advertising." Radio
and TV advertising will also
be allowed.

This is truly a revolution
Limited advertising ts allow.
ed in Alberta and Manitoba,
but Ontario sull prohibits ut
and in fact, is threatening

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