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EASY RIDERS three-year-old Jimmy and Jel are all revved up with

March 9, 1980

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nowhere to go, enjoying the sunshine outside their Lynn Valley homes

CN brid
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bill

may total
$150 m.

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when News photographer Terry Peters met up with them.

Only one per cent liability accepted

(UPC) and News Staff

The total bill for the
20-week shutdown of
the damaged Second
Narrows” rail bridge
could run as high as
$150 million when all
the figures are in.
That's over a hundred
times more than the
shipowners responsible
for the accident say
they should pay.

Canadian National Railways
and businesses dependent on

the vital rail hak over
Nancouvers Burrard Inlet
are counting their losses
after the first train in) four

months crossed the railway’'s
repaired bndge

CNR
Menard

spokesman
said

Al
crossed
the bmdpe Tuesday morning
for the first time since Oct
12. whent the treighter Japan
brea rammed it in a heavy
fog

Menard said the accident
the railway some $2!

(rains

cost

mulhon in total $7 milhon in
bndge repairs. another $7
milhon to reroute rail traffic
via the BC Railway or ship
cars across Burrard Inlet on
barges while the bndge was
out of service and $7 milhon
in lost revenuc

He said CNR would try to
recover the $21 millhhon from
the

ships Nissen

owners.

Kissen K K | ot Tokyo, who
argucd in Federal Court last
week that thei lability
should be limited to just

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‘Think again’
— WV guard

By CHRIS LLOYD

Ambleside beach
must either have three
times as many
lifeguards or else be
fenced off to keep the
public out if - West
Vancouver council is
going to stick to its
decision of removing
the swimming float
from the beach.

Such moves are the only
ways to prevent beach
tragedies once the float has
gone, according to Am-
bleside beach assistant head
lifeguard D.R. West.

In an open letter to Mayor
Derrick Humphreys and
West Van aldermen, which
he has sent to the News,
West pleads “in the name of
public safety” for council to
reverse its decision to
remove the float, main-
taining it is an integral part
of effective lifeguarding for
the beach.

The decision
floats on the

to banish
beach was

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SUNDAY: Mainly
cloudy, slight chance of a
shower.

MONDAY:
change.

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