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WEDNESDAY, NOV. 12, 2014 Your community. Your stories
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#IVoteBecause: Prominent TC residents speak
DIANE STRANDBERG THE TRI-CITY NEWS
Why do you vote? The Tri-City News asked prominent people in the community to say why they vote as a way of prompting non-voters to cast a ballot Nov. 15. For their responses, see story on page A3. We invite our readers to tell us why they vote, send a photo with yourself holding a sign that says “I vote because” and your reason via email at newsroom@ tricitynews.com or tweet it out @tricitynews using the hashtag #IVoteBecause. A selection of photos will be published in our Friday, Nov. 14 edition to encourage people to get out and vote the next. And after you vote, tweet it out using the hashtag #IVotedTC.
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Sam Noh, who is channelling the grief over the disappearance of his father, Shin Noh, into pushing for a Silver Alert program, weighs in with his reason for voting.
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More bridge tolls urged by business
Reform of toll policy will be ‘urgent’: report JEff NAGEl BlaCk PRESS
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As leaves change and drop to the ground across the Tri-Cities, colourfully adorned trees make a beautiful autumn backdrop to the activities of runners, walkers and strollers at Lafarge Lake in Coquitlam. With the rain taking a break last Friday, there was lots of activity at Town Centre Park.
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The tolls that are charged on the Port Mann and Golden Ears bridges should be extended to other Lower Mainland crossings so motorists are treated more fairly across the region. That’s one of the rec-
ommendations from the Business Council of B.C. in a white paper it released last week on the need to build much more infrastructure in the province and seek new ways of financing it. That report warns TransLink’s plan to toll a rebuilt Pattullo Bridge in the years ahead may force reform of the current practice of only tolling new or replacement crossings as they are built. “The imposition of a
third toll for a Fraser River crossing may be problematic and would exacerbate concerns over intra‐regional equity with respect to the user‐pay principle for transportation services,” the report says. “This makes it more urgent to look to longer‐term and more equitable solutions to tolling and road‐ use fees as a tool to finance transit and manage road volumes across the region.” see TIME-OF-DAY, page A14
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