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The C1 and C2 community shuttle routes in North Burnaby will be retained as is but with reduced frequency during off-peak hours, TransLink announced Monday. It’s a compromise to the transportation authority’s original proposal, which would have merged the two routes and extended it to
the Kensington neighbourhood but cut out service to the main Heights shopping area on Hastings. Once implemented, likely in the fall or winter of this year, the change would see off-peak service down to every 60 minutes instead of the current 30 minutes, said TransLink spokesperson Derek Zabel. “A lot of people came out in support of that route, a lot of people are passionate about it,” Zabel said.
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A Richmond man has been found guilty of criminal negligence causing the deaths of two teenaged girls who died of a lethal combination of alcohol and drugs. Martin Tremblay, a convicted sex offender, was also found guilty of one count of obstruction of justice and not guilty on a second count, according to media reports. On March 2, 2010 at around 12:40 a.m. Burnaby RCMP were called to the 4000-block of Rumble Street after two Good Samaritans driving by found Kayla Lalonde, a 16-year-old Vancouver resident, in medical distress. She did not survive. Later that same morning, at about 9 a.m., Richmond RCMP responded to a call of a youth being in medical distress at Tremblay’s home on Smith Crescent in the East Richmond community of Hamilton. The 17-year-old girl in that case, Martha Jackson Hernandez, also died.
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