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In article <1993Feb17.172421.29623@mikejag.wimsey.bc.ca> steve@mikejag.wimsey.bc.ca (Steve (PrettyBoy) Barclay) writes:
>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.
>

I know, we'll leave the bridge as it stands and dedicate two lanes to public
transportation.  The one lane that is left open will alternate directions
every half hour.  Transit can triple the number of buses running from the
North Shore to accomodate all the people and the selfish polluting imbiciles
can sit in long lines and suck their own exhaust.

Only one problem with this, it would never be done because the politicians
don't have the guts to do it.

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