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Biker fumes over idling transit car

Re: Phibbs Exchange Bus Loop
my | commute daily by bike from the
i forth Shore to Burnaby and my
fd Jute takes me through the Phib!
weam@eeexchange bus loop by the Second
A = arrows bridge
/ While riding { the buses 1 often
mae the signs displaying some of RC
Fearensit’s mottos, “Go Green,”
. uit fuming and take the bus,” ete.

I believe very much in people
using alternative means of trans-
tion such as bus ss watk

poilution and lessen 1 anges
Quite often when I

through the hange the transit

supervisor veh is in the loop.

Except on rare occasions the super-

thicle, usually a big 4x4

c, is left idling even when che

i ising

supervisor is Got in it.

Naw (could see that if it is cold
and wet or peopie are in the vehicle
for extended ods of time, they
may need some warmth. But in the
middle of summer?

Several times [have stay
asked rhe supervisor “Why i
vehicie running? Do you knos
more polludon is caused by
vehicles then by driving ones?”

realize that”
you're right
nothing changed and so ] waukd ask
again and get replies like “Oh yeah,
I keep forgetting to do that.”
sul the vehicle

almast daily b: It
see such ignorance when it comes to
pollution and the well-being of our
planet, especially from an outtit that

At first I got the reply, “No I did
and “Yeah, PT guess
As the days went by

et

But
dling on an
infuriating to

our
live

says it tries to help the situation.
Don’t people realize that we only

one chance with this world?
ake up a little and help do

something about it and just maybe

grandchildren will not have to
with the filth, destruction and

pollution created by the mass over-
consuming society of today!

Doug Horn

dhorn@istar.ca

gol tab reveals Light rai rail line for the North Shore

ve’re not |

ear Ediior:
Glen Clark has decided:
Wm) we are going to drive
rough Sranley Park in a nun-
rl to get downtown
x are going to pay a toll for
¢ privilege of doing so.
"y have done a bit of simple
@aithmetic. The facts:
The government is willing
pay $70 million to deal
hn the fact that the Lions
Bate Bridge will soon be unfit
Br ouse, Thar would be
hough co rebuild it with
ree lanes ($23 million per
ney. There would be no
Bills, This is whar the people
Rant.
A. marginally better four-
ne bridge with a tunnel
Mider Stanley Park will cost
00 million. This is what
ler, Clark says will be done.
Tolls will be $2 cach way,
id will. last (optimisticaliy)
Dr 25 years.

ved

What this acans:

The colls wil! be used to
pay the $230 million required
for the extra bridge lane and
the tunnel ($300 million
minus $70 million).

Assuming the fourth lane
costs the sam the other
three lanes, it will cost about
$23 million.

Of the $230 million being
paid from tolls, abour 20
cents per trip { ($23 million),
will be for the extra lane on
the bridge and $1.80 per trip
($207 million) will be for the
tunael. A North Shore family
making three one-way trips
will pay $49,275 over 25
years to crawl through Staaley
Park in a tunnel breathing
other people’s exhaust in an
earthquake zone.

Someone in Victeria does-
n’t like us.

Don Thompson
North Vancouver

Dear Edito

So Premier Clark favors 3
$269-million tunnel under
Stanley Park as part of the
Lions Gate Bridge refurbish-
Ment project.

For the same money we
can baild light rail transit to
the North Shore.

the extremely suc:

arishruc, Germany

cin LRT as a madi
(LRP that operates an its own
trackage as well as sharing the
mainline railway trackage j, an
LRT line could be built from
downtown Vancouver via
Grandview, and cut across the
Second Narrows rail bridge to
the North Shore!

In Karlshrue, LRT sharing
mainline urackage has reduced
total construction — costs,
including vet to about
$3.5 million per kilometre! So
successful is the Karlshrue
‘Two System LRT it is now the
model for no less than 15 new
or under-construction systems
in Europe and the United
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All we necd is the political
will to niake i¢ happen.

But don't hold
breath. Premier Claz!
Iva “rubber on asphai
no LRT far him.

Though — he

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