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The need for more public transit was the number one issue Port Coquitlam candiJunior Stylistin datesBrad, heard on the doorstep the last municipal election. Yet two thirds of residents who cast ballots in the Metro Vancouver transit plebiscite voted against a 0.5% sales tax to get better services. It’s a result that has PoCo
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Port Moody Mayor Mike Clay is disappointed but not surprised that Metro Vancouver voters came out heavily on the No side in the transit referendum, saying the plebiscite shifted focus from a regional transit plan to a resounding rejection of TransLink. PoMo residents were more closely tied than in other mu-
just a little over half the city’s eligible voters). Clay said he hopes the vote spurs the provincial government to look more closely at the Mayors’ Council’s requests to reform TransLink. TM Reg. $44.98 In the meantime, he said, from nobody really wins with the GTX All Grades, most vehicles. No vote. FREE top “It updoesn’t of all fluids. matter where you are, this plan was a regional plan and it was intended to move goods and people MAYOR MIKE CLAY around the region more effecnicipalities, voting 42.61% in tively,” Clay said. favour of the plan and 57.39% against it (11,386 votes total, see CLAY, page A6
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Coquitlam had a few more revellers at its Canada Day fireworks display Wednesday night after Port Coquitlam suddenly cancelled its light show. High wind gusts and dry weather caused PoCo Fire and Emergency Services to scrap that city’s annual July 1 fireworks display, which was set to begin at 10 p.m. at Castle Park. That meant Coquitlam was the only municipality in the Tri-Cities to have a show, the sounds of which could be heard in PoCo and PoMo. PoCo deputy fire chief Terry Hochstetter told The Tri-City News on Thursday he made the call to the city shortly before 7 p.m. as his crews were en route to a house fire on Burns Road, in the north part of Port Coquitlam.
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