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JULY 9 2014 www.burnabynewsleader.com The 60th anniversary of the Roger Bannister-John Landy Miracle Mile will be celebrated during the Harry Jerome Classic at Swangard Stadium on Thursday. Page A8
Province demands better answers NEB asked to order ‘full and adequate’ responses from Kinder Morgan Jeff Nagel Black Press
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Mike Bhangu was hit by a car at Smith Avenue and Kincaid Street recently. Area residents have started a petition for a traffic light to replace the current four-way stop.
Residents petition for traffic signal Pedestrian struck by car in busy four-way intersection recently Wanda Chow
wchow@burnabynewsleader.com
Burnaby resident Mike Bhangu had just stepped off a bus on June 30 sometime after 5:30 p.m. He was in the crosswalk heading home when he was struck by a car. The impact threw Bhangu, 45, to the ground and knocked him unconscious. “I just saw a bunch of lights, I didn’t know what was happening.”
The next thing he remembers, he was riding in an ambulance and paramedics were telling him they were taking him to Vancouver General Hospital. The accident happened in the intersection of Smith Avenue and Kincaid Street, just a block away from Burnaby Hospital. But paramedics were concerned he might have a head injury, so they took him to VGH for a brain scan, Bhangu said. On Friday, when he met with a reporter, Bhangu still sported visible bruises on his head and the soreness
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of traffic, the four-way stop at that intersection isn’t one of them. “In 2014 a four-way stop does not meet the safety needs and traffic needs of this intersection any longer.” There’s no shortage of area residents who have connections to collisions at that corner. Carol Lewis said in the 1990s her daughter, who was in her 30s at the time, was also struck, suffering bad bruises. Another woman on the street, who didn’t give her name, talked of her own recent close call.
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of his injuries had him walking slowly with a limp. Meanwhile, area resident Jim Favaro has started a petition to address what residents believe is a longtime need for a traffic signal at the intersection. Favaro was among the first on the scene of the accident, staying with Bhangu and trying to keep him comfortable until ambulance crews arrived soon afterward. He’s lived in the area since 1986 and has seen quite a few changes in the neighbourhood. Despite the significant increase in the volume
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The province has filed a motion with the National Energy Board asking it to compel Kinder Morgan to provide “full and adequate” responses to questions about its Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. The demand is one of a series of similar requests of the NEB after Kinder Morgan responded to a series of first-round information requests by various intervenors in the project review. The province submitted more than 70 requests related to maritime and landbased spill response, prevention and recovery systems. But the government says Kinder Morgan’s failure to provide sufficient information in the responses means B.C. can’t fully understand the risks posed or judge whether the project would meet B.C.’s condition of worldleading spill response systems. According to the provincial filing, Kinder Morgan refused to release its Please see ONLY 24%, A3