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havoc with traffic

AN ACCIDENT aud a burst water main at the south end of the Second Narrows Bridge played havoc with North Shore commuter traffic Monday evening and Tuesday morning.

Second Narrows Bridge traffic along the Upper Levels Highway was backed up to Lonsdale Avenue, after the main artery away from the bridge was closed at Cassiar and Hastings near the PNE Monday evening as police investigated the death of a 12-year-old boy who fell off his bicycle and under the wheels of a semi-trailer truck.

While evening rush hour traffic was backed up alung the Upper

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Levels Highway Monday, a 1988 Yugo caught fire after rear-ending a dumptruck and 2 minor accident at Lonsdale Avenue added to the tie-ups, said North Vancouver City and District fire department

The traffic delays extended to Lions Gate Bridge, clogging the Up- per Levels and Marine Drive arteries teading to that bridge.

A burst water main near the PNE carly Tuesday morning again backed up commuter traffic along the Upper Levels Highway feading to the Second Narrows Bridge, and the Lions Gate Bridge traffic was backed up along Marine Drive as far as Keith Road as drivers sought

A BURST watermain at the south end of the Second Narrows Bridge meant a fong wait for North Shore drivers Tuesday mornine.

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Union demands seniority rights

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crease in the first year and three per cent raises in each of the subsequent four years.

But Fitzpatrick said only skilled tradesmen would benefit from the wage increases proyiosed in the of- fer.

Under the offer the hourly rate of semi-skilled workers will drop from $17.38 10 $17.22 over the course of the contract, while the rate for unskilled workers will in- crease from $16.84 to $16.94,

The hourly rate for a tradesman would go from $18.48 to $20.78.

A major issue in the negotiations is the wage rate proposed for new union employees.

The company wants to start new semi-skilled and unskilled workers at 80 and 70 per cent respectively of the proposed tradesman’s hour- ly wage of $19.01. which would result in a $15.20 rate for new

semi-skilled workers

for semi-skilled employees with seniority recall rights currently working with the company, and $13.30 for new unskilled workers compared with the current $16.84 per hour rate.

Union negotiators also want to extend from two to three years union seniority rights to offset the croded seniority of laid-off workers resulting from past defays in securing the $350 million Polar Class 8 icebreaker contract.

The two sides have been trying to negotiale a contract agreement since last June.

The current contract expired Aug. 31, 1987 and covers about 1,200 Versatile employees.

LaRoue said no new negotiation meetings had been scheduled, but that he hoped to meet with union representatives this week to get clarification of specific problems.

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KENT DEMOND, 5, watches balloons float away during Dundarave'’s Hoe-Down celebrations over the weekend. The event was to honor the neighborhood's recent revitalization of the business area. See story

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Parking problem stalls

THE ESPLANADE movie theatre development has been held up again by North Vancouver City Council’s search for

parking spaces.

Second reading of the bylaw which would allow for the multi- screen development was deferred Monday after Ald. Rod Clark suggested negotiating for money to compensate for the reduced park- ing requirement for the complex.

Development services director Fred Smith said the building would normally require about 100 on-site parking spaces, but the developers would be given approval to build only 27.

He said the 73 parking stalls developer Knockmaroon Holdings will not have to build wifl translate into. a more than half-million dollar savings to the company, af $8,000 per space. Clark said the ci-

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ty should put a portion of that money into a parking fund.

“Without some foresight we'll be giving the store away,"’ he said, adding the parking situation near Lonsdale Quay is bad and will get worse. ‘‘Every developer will want a parking deal.”

“Tt would maintain that there is going to be a (need for a city built) parking structure in Lower Lons- dale and as much of that should be covered by the developnient com- munity as possible,’’ said Clark.

At a public hearing earlier in the meeting, a number of area

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business people spoke in favor of the development, saying it would help revitalize and bring customers to arelatively depressed area.

In an interview after the meeting, Ald. Bill Bell said Clark should have suggested his plan earlier.

“Y don’t think we can afford to waste their time by playing games,’’ he said.

The development, on the nor- th-west corner of Esplanade and Chesterfield, will have five stores fronting on Esplanade, six movie screens on two levels above the stores, and offices on the top floor.

There will be a provision in the bylaw restricting building use to a movie theatre, so it will always have its peak use in the evening when other nearby buildings are empty and there is parking.

near 27°C. Thursday, cloudy with isolated showers.