Marcie The venerable Burrard Bearer and the Burrard Otter
% have served this community well. For most of their 23
Good years, the SeaBuses have operated like clockwork. This
year, however, they have already missed 28 sailings.
With the added luggage of people detouring the Lions
Gate Bridge, tourists, and summer ESL students, pas-

sengers are being left behind on rush hour trips.

») inquiring

TransLink has no intention of replacing them or
adding new ones, at least in this decade. Its priorities,

reporter rather, lie in the rapid growth areas served by the
TOC Sky Train. And a new SeaBus doesn’t come cheap: a
Burrard Muskrat or Sea Lion would cost about $15 million, plus maintenance and
operating costs. But some people, including SeaBus master Capt. Greg Freedman,
have raised alarming concerns about the safety of the aging vessels. Do we have to
wait until the Beaver really bites it?

NORTH SHORE DEMOGRAPHICS

NO DON’T
OPINION KNOW

Horseshoe Bay
Dundarave/Ambleside
British Prope: ties
Norgate/Pemberton Heights

Capilano/Delbrook Highlands

Lower Lonsdafe
Central and Upper Lonsdale
Lynn Valley -

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9%
12%
19%
14%
13%
12%

51%
39%
38%
AV%
57%
67%
66%

Randal! Webb

West Vancouver

Yes. The bridge is never
going to be any quicker.
They’re going to have to
think of something, but
maybe not necessarily a
whole new SeaBus. Maybe
something smaller if people
are being left behind.

4% 4%
8% 30%
0% 52%
3% 27%
5% 29%
5% 24%
0% 20%
1% 21%

Heidi Schimpl

North Vancouver

The service from Lower
Lonsdale is fine, but I do
think we need another ser-
vice. We need to use the
waterways more in all of
Vancouver. In the long run I
think (the money spent)
would be worth it.

Rolf Gosney

North Vancouver

There’s only a few hours of
the day when it gets really
busy. the rest of the time it’s
not too bad. Maybe try to
squeeze a few more trips for
those hours. It’s too crowd-
ed and it’s the last thing you
need on the way home from
work.

Blueridge/Deep Cove 38% 10% 3% 29%

COMBINED AVERAGE

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Before Judge William
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Vancouver, was jailed 14 days
and received three years’ pro-
bation after he pleaded guilty
to threatening a man on March
14 in North Vancouver City.

Before Judge William
Dieboit on July 4:

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pleaded guilty to possessing
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North Vancouver City.

Before Judge Doug Moss
on May 3:

Hugh William Vandusan,
42, of no fixed address,
received six months’ probation
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states that Vandusan is not to
go to the 7-Eleven store at
1375 Marine Dr.

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of no fixed address, received a
uiree month conditional sen-
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using false pretences to obtain
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1998 in
District.

Overbye was required to
pay $512 restitution to the gas
station.

Before Judge Doug Moss
on March 22:

Niki Markovina, 58, of West
Vancouver, was fined $100
after pleading guilty to com-
mitting mischief by damaging a
vehicle’s door and key on Dec.
20, 1998 in West Vancouver.

Before Judge Bill Rodgers

North Vancouver

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Donald Leonard Barnicoct,
33, of North Vancouver, was
fined $50 and received 12
months’ probation after he
pleaded guilty to:

B stealing food and liquor for
the Harrison Hot Springs
Hotel on Feb. 10, 1999;
committing mischief. by
damaging, walls, a television
and mini bar in a room at the
hotel.

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