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Article #63973Re: Lions Gate Bridge upgrade?
From: Steve (PrettyBoy) Barclay
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1993 17:24
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1993 17:24
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In article <1lgqpiINNn8r@skeena.ucs.ubc.ca> buckland@ucs.ubc.ca (Tony Buckland) writes: > Some of you may be physically - and feel mentally - remote > from Vancouver, the North Shore, and the current discussion > here about whether, and if so how, to upgrade the Lions Gate > Bridge. There's plenty to say on the main issue, on both > (or several) sides. But there seems to be general agreement > that the considerable cost of any upgrade would have to be > recovered with tolls. With which we come at last to my > point, that nobody seems to be thinking about the effect that > collecting these tolls would have. In my humble opinion, the old bridge should be left standing, and they should build shops across it for tourists. They should then build another one beside it which is bigger and on the vancouver side goes onto a two deck causway, so that the strip through stanley park dosn't need to be widened. Steve -- ############################################################################### # You have been listening to the erotic daydreams of an earthworm as it was # # sucked backwards through a French milking machine. - George Carlin # ###############################################################################.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 106cdd,8c6c90b17c231e18 X-Google-Attributes: gid106cdd,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1993-02-17 09:24:21 PST Newsgroups: bc.general Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!uunet.ca!xenitec!van-bc!mikejag!steve From: steve@mikejag.wimsey.bc.ca (Steve (PrettyBoy) Barclay) Subject: Re: Lions Gate Bridge upgrade? Organization: mikejag (mike) is a private system in Vancouver, BC, Canada Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1993 17:24:21 GMT Message-ID: <1993Feb17.172421.29623@mikejag.wimsey.bc.ca> References: <1lgqpiINNn8r@skeena.ucs.ubc.ca> Lines: 23