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Article #63988Re: Lions Gate Bridge upgrade?
From: Eldon Wong
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1993 20:34
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1993 20:34
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In article <1993Feb18.071259.16120@sfu.ca> lort@fraser.sfu.ca (Charles Lort) writes:
>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.
Nice to vent some steam off, huh? :-) I could be wrong, but I heard somewhere
that BC Transit had to schedule the buses so that not too many were on the
bridge at the same time. Was there an engineering study or something that
showed that the bridge couldn't handle too many buses on it at the same
time? Does anyone know if this is true?
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