innocent victims.

Winter driving in B.C. always poses the threat of traffic fatalities, but Conrad Swanson believes that some lethal accidents could be avoided with a little common sense planning.

Last week the Seymour Boule- vard resident watched as two boys crossing the intersection at River- side Drive and Mt. Seymour Parkway were almost hit by a swerving westbound car that had run a stale orange light.

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NVD resident pushes for safer

Number of recommendations presented to officials concerning problems on N. Van’s third busiest road

A NORTH Vancouver man fears that this winter a dan- gerous stretch of North Shore road will claim the lives of

By A.P. McCredie News Reporter

busiest roads on the North Shore — traffic on Mt. Seymour Parkway flows unimpeded by traffic lights, giving motorists more time to build up speed.

Also, when westbound vehicles are snaking down the hill east of Riverside Drive, they have no in-

44 .Traffic on Mt. Seymour Parkway flows unimpeded by traffic lights, giving motorists more time to build up speed.97

. “You just wish at moments like that, that you had the power to do something,’’ Swanson said.

Well, he has done something.-

Swanson has written the North Vancouver District, the North Shore Highways manager, and the RCMP, with a number of rec- ommendations for the intersec- tion.

In the letter, Swanson notes that Mt. Seymour Parkway is the third busiest road in North Van- couver and that with development inceeesing in Indian Arm and Northlands, tine traffic flow is steadily following suit.

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dication of the color of the traffic lights until they are almost at the intersection. Swanson maintains that when the light is orange most drivers just run it instead of brak-

_ing going downhill.

The fact that hundreds of

‘school-age children, both elemen-

tary and secondary cross at this intersection everyday worries Swanson. The Maplewood school playing field is also close to the intersection.

“In addition to the hazards for pedestrians is the danger to vehi- cles turning left across Mt. northbound. onto Riverside Drive,’’ Swanson observes. ‘“‘These cars also have to cross the westbound Mt. Seymour

Parkway speeding traffic and without the aid of a left-hand turn signal.’”

Swanson thinks that an impen- ding tragedy could be avoided if the district, the police and the highways department implemented a few changes to the intersection.

First, a drastic increase in the number cf speed traps on Mt. Seymour Parkway. The installa- tion of a left-hand turn signal for northbound Riverside Drive traf- fic, and a set of flashing warning lights on the steep hill on Mr. Seymour east of Riverside in- dicating the traffic lights are about to change.

To divert the pedestrian flow across the Parkway, Swanson suggests the construction of an overpass, like the one over the Upper Levels a? Jones.

And finally, a reduction in the speed limit on the Parkway half a kilometre either side of Riverside Drive.

According to North Vancouver RCMP traffic Sgt. Don Miller, the Riverside Dr.-Mt. Seymour Parkway and the Deep Cove-Mt. Seymour Parkway intersections can be dangerous for both pedes- trians and traffic.

But Miller says the highest number of intersection accidents occurs when vehicles fail to yield after stopping.

“They come to a complete stop alright, but then they proceed through the intersection when they should not,”’ said Miller.

With winter approaching, Con- rad Swanson fears that the prob- lem is going to get solved only after a tragedy occurs. .

**Semember,’’ he writes, “winter is coming, the road gets slippery, it gets dark earlier and returning skiers are tired and in a

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