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More North Shore residents busing it BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com
The number of people taking transit to, from and around the North Shore climbed in 2016, although fewer people were choosing to hop aboard the SeaBus.
TransLink released its annual service performance review Wednesday showing annual boardings on the North Shore’s routes up by 800,000 over 2015, representing about four per cent growth. Boardings on the SeaBus declined by 2.8 per cent, however. Total journeys across the TransLink system increased by 4.5 per cent last year to 233 million, according to the transit authority’s official data. Most of the growth in North Shore ridership came from the main commuter buses that connect the denser neighbourhoods to downtown or transit hubs with
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COWABUNGA! Trent Oliver, 7, launches himself across one of the kids’ games set up as part of Bike to Shop Days in the plaza next to the John Braithwaite Community Centre in Lower Lonsdale July 23. The event included live music, ice cream and prize draws. PHOTO CINDY GOODMAN
Ticketing blitz putting brakes on ‘rat run’
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Rat-runners beware. The trap has been set.
North Vancouver RCMP officers have been handing out hundreds of tickets to drivers violating traffic-calming measures in the Cloverley neighbourhood in a bid to avoid congestion emanating from the Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows bridgehead. “An immense amount of rat-running was going on,” said City of North Vancouver deputy engineer Peter Navratil, referring to the drivers who would cut through Heywood, Shavington or Cloverley Streets, or their lanes, when Keith Road or Third Street back up every afternoon. “The
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reliability on the Second Narrows has just gone nuts in the last six months. You’re seeing this on a daily basis and it’s driving (Cloverley residents) crazy.” In the last two months, the city has made the 700 block of East Fourth Street one-way westbound and made right turns onto Fifth Street from Queensbury illegal from 3 to 6 p.m. And RCMP members have been out writing
$121-tickets for folks disobeying the new traffic signs. “After a couple weeks of grace period, it was not uncommon to hand out 100 tickets a day. As fast as they could write them, people were being ticketed,” said Cpl. Richard De Jong, North Vancouver RCMP spokesman. “That included those who actually live there as well.” The traffic officers on scene have largely had community support, De Jong added. “People were literally bringing them cookies and KoolAid and whatnot to show their support because they’ve seen a marked decrease in speed,” he said. “That shows it’s being effective.”
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