10 ~ Wednesday. April 18, 1990 - North Shore News NEWS photo Paul McGrath A LOCAL resident speaks to participants at a recent communtiy meeting regarding the future of Greater Vancouver held recently at Silver Har- bour Centre in North Vancouver. N. Shore struggles NORTH Shore residents grappled with the issue of how to maintain Greater Vancouver as a livable region in a lively public meeting held recently in North Vancouver. By PATRICK RAYNARD Contributing Writer Problems resulting from increas- ing area population and pollution were among those addressed at the meeting. Greater Vancouver Regional District (GVRD) policy develop- ment administrator Hugh Kellas told the gathering that the region will have an estimated population of two million by the year 2000. And he said that, already, 80 per cent of the region’s air pollution ‘ comes from cars. “‘There are only 3% years of land supply left for single-family housing if we keep developing at the present rate,’’ he said. And, “forget a third crossing of Burrard Inlet." Richard White, North Van- couver City’s assistant director of planning, toid the meeting that on- ly the bridge or tunnel component of a third crossing — with no ap- proaches at either end included — would alone cost $535 million. **One additional lane in each di- rection to be added to the Second Narrows Bridge is all we can hope for,’ White said. ‘Sacrifices and commitments at the personal level will be the price to pay for a livable North Shore in fuiure,’’ he said, adding that one possibility for the Second Narrows would be that cars carrying more than one person might be allowed to share the lanes reserved for buses. But Jeremy Dalton, president of the West Vancouver-Capilano Provincia: Liberal Association, said that ‘we may not like the Automobile bul we have to accept ao and wna a third crossing is badly needed. “Two bridges are inadequate, and putting on more SeaBuses is only a Band-Aid approach,”’ Dalton said, adding that a third