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No major renovations

Extensive renovations planned for the Lions
Gate Bridge have been postponed again — this

time because of critical traffic demand on another
North Shore access roadway.

Basing traffic congestion
on the southside of the Sc-
cond Narrows Bridge might
take precedence = over
replacing the centre span of
the Lions Gate Bridge. a
provincial highways
engineer told the News.

Announcements made by
Highways Minister Alex

Fraser in 1977 said the four
year,

$30 million bridge

upgrading was scheduled to
begin in 1981.

But widening the Cassiar
Corndor might have pnort
ty, said Greater Vancouver
regional highways enginecr
Michael! O'Connor.

Both = projects
sidered urgent

However since cach would
involve severely restricting
access to the North Shore by

are con

section for story

(Eric Eggertson photo)

this year

forcing closures of

the
bridges, they cannot be done
at the same timc. “It’s just a
matter of which will proceed
first,” said O’Connor.

That decision won't be
made until a Cassiar Cor-
ridor feasibility study is com-
pleted about 10 months from
now. The study will be look-
ing at three alternatives, in-
cluding a tunnel, to case
traffic congestion from the
end of Highway I to the Sc-
cond Narrows Bridge.

lf the Cassiar connection

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Jus

orth Shore

Usf one —
week after
downzoning

defeat

& We

' By MARLENE STARKMAN

Two applications to
build highrises on
Bellevue Avenue were

‘given. speedy approval

by West Vancouver
council Monday —— just
one week after the
defeat of a bylaw which
would have downzoned
the area to lowrise.

With. only minimum
discussion, council gave the
go-ahead to development
permits which allow 17 and
12 storey apartment
buildings to be constructed
at 1972 and 1819 Bellevue
respectively.

A third major develop-
ment on hold until last week
- 2205 Bellevue Avenue —
must still undergo a public
hearing before a develop-
ment permit can be issued —

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WEDNESDAY
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Chance of afternoon
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THURSDAY
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Remaining cool.