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NORTH VANCOUVER DISTRICT COUNCIL By Martin Millerchip

So says the author of an independent study that recom- mends the completion of the controversial Montroyal Connector.

North Vancouver District Council listened March {3 as traffic engineer Brian Wallace of N.D. Lea Consultants Ltd. presented his updated study of the implications of linking Montroyal’ Boulevard east- wards. to . Lonsdale via Rockland.

The report was commis- ” sioned by council in September 1994 ata cost of $18.500 and concludes: “From a technical transportation viewpoint the

Montroyal Connector should be

built.”

The price tag for construc-~

tion of what is envisioned as a two-lane road with occasional parking bays is pegged at $1 ‘Million, although. opponents insist that costs will be higher. F Council has already decided _ that it will not fund the connec- } tor in 1995 but has earmarked : $100,000 in this year’s capital - budget for the design phase. Mayor Murray Dykeman and some councillors insist that "this decision does not pre-judge the issue and that: the money F has only been allocated on‘a “contingency basis. ; ; _ But’. residents: like Al Mcintosh of © the - North “Lonsdale - Ratepayers Association argue that the aeci- f . sion on the connector should be ¥~ made in terms of capital priori- ties-and:says even the design funds should not have been approved this year ahead of

“E. other. more. worthy. projects.

“That $100,000 got pulled out » of: your pocket like a cheap cigar, ”MclIntosh charged: The publication of the N.D. Lea report has reignited the fires of neighborhood politics. |. Both sides argue, often vehe- “mently, that the study supports their viewpoint.

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