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Onni asks council for bowling alley add-on JEREMY SHEPHERD jshepherd@nsnews.com
Maybe this one would be better settled in the alley.
City of North Vancouver council spent Monday evening debating Onni development group’s request to add a bowling alley to their Central Lonsdale project after crews excavated a portion of the site “not originally contemplated.” “When they excavated, what were they thinking?” asked Coun. Holly Back. While the excavation was initially thought to be prohibitively expensive, Onni realized during construction they could satisfy parking and storage requirements and dig out the extra 7,884 square feet, according to Onni development manager Dionne Delesalle, who spoke to the issue on Tuesday. “It started ticking all the boxes,” he said in an interview with the North Shore News. The extra space would push the project’s density
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Candidates target traffic for votes
BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com
Regardless of who forms government after May 9, District of North Vancouver Mayor Richard Walton has a wish list: Better transportation and better transportation. “We have this two-tier
system where transit is subject to referenda, and yet highway expansion and bridges aren’t – and they’re both key and complementary parts to the regional transportation system,” he said. With pretty much daily traffic jams on Highway 1 and its feeder routes, the Lions Gate Bridge, and full busses at rush hour, candidates from
the three major parties are eager to boast about their transportation plans. The NDP is prioritizing public transit expansion in their platform, said North Vancouver-Lonsdale candidate, Bowinn Ma, a SeaBus commuter and an engineer who studied transportation systems. “We know that traffic on
the North Shore sucks. It really does. The B.C. Liberal Party have basically been taking the North Shore voters for granted,” Ma said. The party is pledging to fund 40 per cent of the Mayors’ Council on Regional Transportation’s 10-year plan, which would bring more transit service to the North Shore, including
SeaBus as well as regular and B-Line busses connecting the North Shore to downtown. With the federal Liberals including another 40 per cent in their budget, that leaves the remaining 20 per cent from the mayors, which won’t be subject to a referendum or plebiscite like the
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