8 - Sunday, September 27, 1987 - North Shore News

Quay tower would block N. Van views

Dear Editor:

fivery North Vancouver citizen should be worried about the North Shore News story of July 17 concern- ing the deal on the high-rise bemg made between North Vancouver City Council and Bosa Brothers.

It is apparent that city council has given Bosa Brothers tentative approval for the plan to build a 22 to 25-storey high-rise at Lonsdale Quay. The three- month secrecy term will allow Bosa Brothers to pro- duce detailed plans for the development, which will include sight lines and traffic pattern studies, and be complete with a model of the project.

This will then be presented to council and a public hearing will be held at which the voices of nearby property owners, including the city, will be heard. The voices of the tenants of the low-rise apartments and the homeowners on the slope whose views will be gone, will probably carry no weight and the project will be approved.

There are currently four high-rises of 12 to JS storeys below 4th Street and the waterfront. Imagine what a 22-storey one will look like! It will be the bevinning of a, Berlin Wall of conerete and glass that will eliminate all chance of anyone on the south slopes ever seeing Stanley Park, Burrard Inlet or the Van- couver skyline again from their windows.

Drive along Bellevue in West Vancouver, the con- crete canyon city of the North Shore. No people, no life. just the sightless eyes of apartment block win- dows gazing blankly at cach other across their litte patches of uninhabited shrubbery.

All North Vancouver residents who valuz their views should be on the phone to their council members and the mayor to get this veil of secrecy lifted and be allowed their say at the beginning of negotiations.

Donald W. Currie North Vancouver

CYCLING IN NV DISTRICT

Catch basin proves hazardous

Dear Editor: Recently while 1 was cycling

home from werk along the 3100 — grating

type of cutch-basin cover ought either to be turned such that the is perpendicular to the

traffic is sparse, and the pace slower, the dangerous covers ought to be painted so as to be quite

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block of Paisley Road, the rear wheel of my _ bicycle slipped through the grating of a catch basin cover, and, as a result, was so badly kinked that I had to have

direction of travel, or replaced by catch-basin covers that have a grating curved in such a way that a narrow bicycle wheel cannot slip through.

visible, even in the foulest weather.

I would appreciate the district reimbursing me the $50 cost of rebuilding my damaged wheel. W.J. Spat

the rim replaced and the wheel rebuilt.

The catch basin cover in ques- tion is negligently placed at the apex of a bend in the road, with the grating running parallel to the direction of travel. I was fortunate to have caught only my rear wheel, for had the front wheel slipped be- tween the grating, | would certain- ly have been thrown from my

On side streets,

where moter North Vancouver

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bicycle, possibly into the path of the passing motor-car.

Clearly this type of catch-basin cover, with straight grating runn- ing parallel to the direction of travel, is a hazard to the safety of the increasing number of cyclists on North Vancouver District roads.

On main thoroughfares, where cyclists are travelling speedily in close proximity to motor traffic (such as Queens Street at the Grif- fin Park Recreation Centre), this

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