FRIDAY

June 7, 1996

FERN STREET

Traffic trauma triggers protest

BY IAN NOBLE News Reporter

TWENTY-SIX Fern Street folks joined forces Wednesday night to halt traf- fic and ministry plans to widen Mountain Highway at the residents” expense.

Residents criticized North Vancouver District and the Ministry of Transportation and Highways for what they call the bureaucracies’ evasiveness in dealing with local concerns about a plan to close the Keith Road exit to Highway ! and open an on-ramp from Fern Street.

Their collective patience snapped Wednesday at 5:45 p.m. That's when they discovered workers had removed and paved a sidewalk on the east side of Mountain Highway, beside a home, instead of the west side beside SeyLynn Park as the district had indicated.

Leanne Marshall, who lives in the home beside the now-paved-over side-

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FERN Street's Neal Raney led residents to the street to force workers to stop changes on Mountain Highway that residents say contravene what the district had told them. Area homeowners aren't happy with plans that will increase area traffic.

BY !AN MOBLE

News Reporter

THOUSANDS of North Shore drivers awoke Thursday to a commuting nightmare as work on the Second Narrows Bridge began in carnest.

Trucker Jatin Shepherd, his trac- tor-trailer unit firmly lodged in Third Street traffic near St Andrews Avenue, took it albin stride as he sur- seyed the scene. He assessed the lraffie Situation as being beter dian he thought it would be,

“Because, traditionally, the high- ways department in’ B.C. really screws up big tinte.” he said.

IUs not exaetly a ringing endorsement for the Ministry of Transportation and Highways, which had warned of traffic delays and tirged commuters to: car pool or take transit.

Between 8 aan. and Y aan. Phorsday. dhe first aiorn- ing of bridge work, tific was backed up te Lonsdale on Iighway 1. to Adderley on Keith Road, to St, Andrews on Third and to Kirkstone on Mountain Highway.

Reports said traffic for the Lions Gate Bridge was jammed to Hamilton on Marine Drive on the north side

A tow truck rescues a damaged car from the snaking traffic tie-up on Highway 1 that stretched back to Lonsdale Avenue.

and Barrard at Georgia on the south side. Mount Seymour Parkway commuters fad an extra half-hour wail,

“Can the bastards.” yeHed Craig Cioodmurphy as he drove by, He said he can’t believe anybody accountable would allow the work to be done during working aod cormmutiag hours, Highways said the work would have taken four sears if it had been done at mght

Shepherd added he’s paid bs the munmiber of fouds fy

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Pregnar,” cyclist hit at crossing

BY ROBERT GALSTER Contributing Writer

A pregnant woman's brush with disaster has left her husband quesuioning the Ministry of Transportation and Highway’s (MoTH) decision-making process.

Last Tuesday, two days before the Second Narrows rehabilitation project's scheduled: start date, Brenda Kind was struck by a car as

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