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JULY 6 2012
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Curtis Moss has landed a spot in the Summer Olympics, something that many would not have thought possible just months ago. See Page A10
Light rail costs can’t be found TransLink’s response like ‘the dog ate my homework’: Jordan Wanda Chow wchow@burnabynewsleader.com
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Jim Davies, 78, is back on the bike after a six-month recovery from a road rage incident in October that left him with a shattered pelvis.
Former Olympian back in the saddle Mario Bartel photo@burnabynewsleader.com
Jim Davies is hoping to participate in Sunday’s Valley First Granfondo Axel Merckx in Penticton. Hardly an achievement for someone who rides his bike up to 12,000 kilometres a year, and represented Canada at the 1954 British Empire Games in Vancouver and the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. But eight months ago Davies was wondering if he’d ever ride a bike again. That’s when a road-raging motorist
left him at the side of the road, along a popular cycling route in Steveston, his pelvis shattered. The injury, he says, was “about as bad as it could be.” Two surgeries to rebuild his pelvis with three plates and nine screws and then replace his hip put his body back together. His spirit was another matter. “I thought it was the end of my cycling career,” says Davies, 78, who started racing bikes in Stanley Park when he was 14 years old and won the ¿rst race ever held at the China Creek
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track in Vancouver. Even after he stopped racing, Davies was never far from bikes. In 1974 he and a partner bought Jubilee Cycle on Imperial Street. Though he turned the shop over to his son Neil more than 12 years ago, he’s still involved as a co-owner. And he still rides almost every day. Until his fateful accident last October, while on a leisurely ride with his other son, Gary. Davies says like most cyclists, he’s had plenty of close calls and near misses in his years riding around
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Metro Vancouver. But as cycling has become increasingly popular he says the awareness of cyclists on the road by motorists has actually improved in recent years. That’s why he never expected to be on the blunt end of a motorist’s anger on a road usually busy with cyclists on a sunny Saturday afternoon. Though police attended the scene, the driver was never charged.
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A year after Burnaby council ¿rst asked TransLink to explain how it came up with its 2006 cost estimate for the proposed light-rail (LRT) version of the Evergreen line, it ¿nally got its answer. TransLink can’t ¿nd the numbers. Council originally made its request to TransLink but the transportation authority said it couldn’t answer the question because the provincial government is now in charge of the Evergreen line project. So the response came from Kevin Richter, assistant deputy minister in the infrastructure department of the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure. “TransLink did an extensive search for this information but was unable to locate the breakdown of costs associated with LRT technology from the 2006 business case,” Richter wrote. Please see COST, A4