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FIFTY-THREE Maplewood Community School students have written letters to Vancouver Port Corporation protesting proposed plans to develop property in the Maplewood 9 Mudflats area. The kindergartes and Grade 4 students wrote and sent letters to the port and officials of all three levels of government. ‘

BC TRANSIT PROPOSAL 10 MOVE BUS FLEET HEADQUARTERS TO BURNABY

Commiss

on recommends

depot stay in North Van

NORTH Vancouver will keep its buses.

By MICHAE: BECKER

News Kepester

The Vancouver Regional Transit Commission voted Thursday to direct B.C. Transit staff to explore all possible options for keeping North Vancouver buses on the North Shore.

The decision rules out any con- sideration of locating North Van-

couver buses in’ Burnaby, a move B.C, Transit had been considering.

Said BC. Transit, spokesman Diane Gendron. “TA commission recommendation ta the (B.C. Transit) board will be nvide when staff has looked at the options of operating a centre on the North Shore.”

B.C. Transit ostaff has been directed to research options and report back to the commission within six months,

B.C. Transit had been pushing to move North Vancouver's 77-bus

fleet, presently based at a vraniped and aging depot oon) East Third Street, to the larger Kitchener Street centre in Burnaby.

The plan drew outrage from North Shore residents, bus drivers and was opposed by beth Nerth Vancouver mayors.

North Shore residents and {n- dependent Canadian Transit Union Locai | members, united under the shared banner of the Save Our Buses committee, have been lobby- ing to move the North Vancouver buses into the new Lloyd Avenue

bus depot in North Vancouver. Twenty-eight West Vancouver Blue Buses are based at the Lloyd garage.

North Vancouver District has been delaying development of a parcel of land adjacent to the [Joyd centre in the event of future expanded use by B.C. Transit at the site. The district has a standing offer to lease the land to the com- pany for a nominal $1 per annum.

Said Nerth Vancouver District Mayor Marilyn Baker, ‘‘We’re very pleased it has been decided

that relocation to Burnaby is not an option, but the = six-montn (study) period is of concern to us. We've been holding tand for ex- pansion at Lloyd for a number of years. Another six months is z hardship. We've been hanging there by our teeth.”’

When West Vancouver’s Blue Buses first moved to the Lloyd centre in 1986, plans called for the eventual amalgamation of North and West Vancouver transit opera- tions.