Friday, July 12, 2013 - North Shore News - A5
Traffic impacts minor: PMV From page 3
NEWS photo Mike Wakefield
SOME roads are temporarily construction of Low Level Road.
closed
during
B&B Heavy Civil Construction works on the first tier of the new retaining wall. While the Low Level Road expansion has been a “constant headache” for the beleaguered Moodyville residents, contending with the retaining wall work and B&B have been surprisingly low stress, according to First Street resident Michael Binkley. Binkley said work crews have been keeping the lane tidy and they’re usually off the work site by 4 p.m. Pedley expects that work to be done by the end of July and nearly identical work on Alder Street is set to begin shortly. Traffic on Low Level Road and the surrounding area has experienced some minor inconvenience as contractors manoeuvre and place heavy equipment, but that has only amounted to brief lane closures, Pedley said. Port Metro Vancouver has committed to keeping Low Level Road open throughout the project, other
‘No ants on plants’ is a good rule From page 3
“They very rapidly swarm from their nests and start stinging” anyone standing or kneeling in the backyard, he said. European fire ants can have numerous colonies in one yard because they recognize it as ideal habitat, sending flying ants only a short distance away, or not at all. Higgins said that is
common in invasive species. “They monopolize these areas,” he said. “You get high nest densities, so with the European fire ant, you can get four to five nests in a single square metre.” Higgins said that although there are signs up in a city park in Richmond, there are no signs on the North Shore as the ants have only been found on private properties to date.
than for two weekends in the fall and winter when the port will shut the road down to install beams that support new overpasses, which will replace the existing at-grade crossings onto port land. The Low Level Road project won approval from City of North Vancouver council last year and has been marred by controversy as expansion of the industrial land creates conflicts with the adjacent residential neighbourhood.
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