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O Canada: New West got into the Canada Day spirit July 1 with parties at both Queen’s Park and River Market. Clockwise from top left, Maya Bohn, age 5, gets into the games at Queen’s Park; three-year-old Faith Lu waves her flag at Queen’s Park; Hyack Ambassadors Anna Almonte, Leylin Ozdemir, Jenni Slinn and Andie Lloyd have some fun at River Market; the No Mothers band performs at the Quay. For photos and video, see our website at www.royalcityrecord.com.
New West loses the Bailey bridge battle BY THERESA MCMANUS REPORTER tmcmanus@royalcityrecord.com
An arbitrator has sided with Coquitlam in a longstanding feud with New Westminster about the Bailey bridge. After years of conflicting views on the future of the Bailey bridge, which links the two cities through the Braid industrial area, New Westminster and Coquitlam recently went to arbitration. After reviewing the submissions by both cities, arbitrator S. Glenn Sigurdson found Coquitlam’s proposal to be “more persuasive” and selected a two-lane bridge for the controversial crossing.
this process, and we have to Coun. Chuck Puchmayr said accept, in good faith, the binding he thought the city put forward decision by an arbitrator.” a “very good case” but always Mayor Wayne Wright knew it would have to accept the expressed surprise and disapconsequences of the arbitrator’s pointment with the decision, as decision. he felt the city put forward an “I would say I am surprised. I “extremely competent and facttruly think that the safety of goods filled” submission. movement through that corridor, “There’s not much to it,” he the safety of the issues related said of the arbitrator’s decision. to the more than 60 train move“It’s weird.” ments a day, the letter from the Wayne Wright Puchmayr was also disaprailways, from Transport Canada ‘It’s weird’ pointed the arbitrator’s decision with regards to that,” he told The Record. “Of course I am disappointed we didn’t provide any rationale for supportweren’t successful, but we did agree to ing Coquitlam’s position.
The Community Charter states that written reasons are not to be provided by the arbitrator. “We are extremely happy with the arbitrator’s ruling today,” Coquitlam Mayor Richard Stewart said in a press release. “We have long held that this crossing, while seemingly small, is an important one for our residents – especially as it helps alleviate congestion on the Brunette overpass and, in turn, increases access to Royal Columbian Hospital, Coquitlam’s primary regional hospital. We look forward to seeing this work finally move forward.” ◗Bridge Page 8
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