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Wednesday, December 10, 2014 NewsLeader A1
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A New West mom says a local medical clinic’s no-stroller policy is out of line. See Page A3
Five deaths in 11 days String of incidents draws warning from B.C. Coroner
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Santa is all smiles as he waves to the crowds on the soggy sidewalks of Columbia Street during Saturday’s New Westminster Christmas parade. See MORE PHOTOS on A16
No Bailey bridge opening anytime soon New two-lane bridge won’t be ready for vehicles until January Grant Granger
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The Braid Street Bailey bridge linking New West and Coquitlam won’t be open until the new year. Pile driving for the second lane of the connection was expected to start about a month ago, but it won’t begin until sometime this week, said City of New Westminster engineering technologist Keith Whiteley. NOW AVAILABLE
Negotiations over the price of the pile driving delayed the project because nearby BC Hydro, Telus and other lines created complications. Those details have now been worked out, but work won’t be completed for several weeks. “Right now our goal is to get the piles in and get the superstructure in, and as soon as that’s done we’ll get the rest into place,” said Whiteley. He updated new New Westminster Mayor Jonathan Coté and Coquitlam Mayor Richard
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Stewart on the weekend. Currently one lane is open to pedestrians and cyclists but remains closed to vehicles until work on the second structure is completed. It replaced the previous one-lane Bailey bridge that was determined to be structurally unsound to carry heavy vehicles last March. The second bridge came into play because Coquitlam wanted a twolane structure to connect its United Boulevard to Braid. New West argued that adding another lane would add even more traffic to the already heavily
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congested Braid and Brunette Avenue intersection. The dispute went to binding arbitration which ruled in Coquitlam’s favour. Whiteley said no more work can be done on the first bridge until the second structure is in place. The abutments for both crossings will be done at the same time. For now, ramps at either end of the one that’s been installed allow cyclists and pedestrians to cross. The bridge is also lit to allow safe night crossings.
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B.C.’s chief coroner is warning drivers and walkers to take extra care after five elderly pedestrians were killed in intersections over a recent 11-day period. Barb McLintock said two of the deaths happened in Vancouver and there have been one each in New Westminster, Kelowna and Oliver between Nov. 23 and Dec. 3. The fatality in New West occurred Saturday, Nov. 29, when an 84-year-old woman was crossing the intersection at Sixth Street and Fifth Avenue at about noon when she and a younger woman were hit. The elderly woman died later that evening. In four of the five cases, the pedestrians – who ranged in age from 73 to 87 – were struck by vehicles making lefthand turns. In the fifth case, the vehicle was going straight through the intersection. A review by the B.C. Coroners Service of 142 similar fatalities from 2010-2012 showed seniors over age 70 are more than twice as likely as any other age group to die in a pedestrian incident. see DANGEROUS, A3