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FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 2016 Your community. Your stories.
TRI-CITY
NEWS
ON THE BALL FOR 55+ GAMES
Locals no fans of Burrard closure SARAH PAYNE
The Tri-CiTy News
The official closure of the Burrard Thermal generating station this week means the end of a reliable source of local power, says one of the facility’s former engineers. It’s a critical loss for the region and one that cannot be easily replaced, says Martin Cavin, who retired in 2013 from BC Hydro after a 24-year career at the Port Moody power plant as a power engineer and operations manager. “It is the only large generating plant in the whole Lower Mainland,” he said, noting the generating facilities at Ruskin, Stave and Buntzen lakes are “tiny” in comparison to Burrard’s 900 megawatt (MW) capacity.
COQUITLAM 2016 55+ BC GAMES SOCIETY
Trying out lawn bowling in advance of an April 9 community awareness event promoting the Coquitlam 2016 55+ BC Games are (from left): Pat Meyers, director of promotion for the games; Helga Ovington, city of Coquitlam liaison to the games; and Philip Jewell, director of protocol. For more on the run-up to the games, please see page 7.
see BURRARD, page 10
TRI-CITY TRANSPORTATION
Big demand for transit in Tri-City DIANE STRANDBERG
Burrard plant should stay open, says Elaine Golds: see page 22
Tri-CiTy News
Tri-City residents care about their bus system, results of TransLink’s public consultation show. But when it comes to new routes, there appear to be more winners than losers as the
regional transit authority rolls out routes to connect people to the Evergreen Line, which is slated to open in early 2017. As many as 3,700 people responded to TransLink’s transit network review last fall, a third of the 12,017 total, and there were at least two petitions submitted as well, to get officials to
pay attention to their concerns.
THE WINNERS
Who got what they wanted? For the most part, Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam, Port Moody, Anmore and Belcarra residents will benefit from the opening of the $1.4-billion rapid transit line, with many neighbour-
hoods seeing new routes and connections to stations along the route, according to the recommendations that will be rolled out in the coming months. For example, there was plenty of support for new routes on Heritage Mountain in Port Moody, Westwood
Plateau and the Mayfair industrial area in Coquitlam, and the Dominion Triangle in Port Coquitlam plus a new route to get Simon Fraser University students to campus faster from the new Burquitlam Station on the Evergreen Line. see MISSING: NIGHT, page 6
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