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First winter weather blasts North Shore
Communities bracing for second storm on Thursday JANE SEYD jsyed@nsnews.com
It’s one down, one to go. North Shore residents woke up to the first blast of winter Monday morning as snow fell across North and West Vancouver. The next blast of winter is forecast to blow in midday on Thursday.
Upper elevations saw up to 15 centimetres of snow by noon Monday, while areas of Central Lonsdale were reporting up to 7 cm. By Tuesday morning 69 cm had fallen over the previous 48 hours. Municipal snowplows and salting trucks were out in force Monday afternoon while snow continued to fall. Nine municipal trucks were on the road since around 4 a.m. in the District of North Vancouver Monday, said spokeswoman Stephanie Smiley, with a full crew scheduled around the clock. Main roads had been salted and cleared by noon, and crews were continuing to work on secondary roads. Plowing and salting crews were also out in West Vancouver, which received some of the heavier snow accumulations on local roads, and in upper elevations of the City of North Vancouver. Rush hours still proved challenging for some drivers. Both North Vancouver RCMP and West Vancouver Police Department said there had been reports of some vehicles spinning off the road, but no significant accidents or damage. Hills in Horseshoe Bay,
A transit bus skidded off the road on Mountain Highway and collided with a tree in North Vancouver Monday afternoon. Two people suffered minor injuries. Another storm is expected to bring a fresh dump of snow and more cold temperatures on Thursday. PHOTO CINDY GOODMAN the highway north of that and upper areas of the British Properties appeared to be the trouble spots in West Vancouver between about 5:30 and 8:30 a.m. Monday. Corp. Richard De Jong of North Vancouver RCMP said several fender benders had also been reported higher on Mountain Highway and on higher elevation areas near Grouse and Lynn Valley. Those trying to take transit
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Lynn Headwaters road closed for months BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com
It could take months and millions of dollars to restore vehicle access to Lynn Headwaters Regional Park from Lynn Valley.
The District of North Vancouver closed Lynn Valley Road at Evelyn Street indefinitely on Dec. 1 over
fears of a landslide, following the completion of a geotechnical report. “We had known that it had some problems for quite some time but we didn’t understand the extent of the problem until the geo-techs did some sub-surface analysis. They drilled down deep into the road and found that the soil the road is founded on is quite unstable,” said
Fiona Dercole, the district’s section manager of public safety. The closure cuts off access to about 175 parking spots, which were used by trail runners, mountain bikers, dog walkers and hikers. Cyclists and pedestrians are still welcome on the road if they keep to the inside shoulder. The road was built in
the early 1900s, buttressed by fill that would no longer meet today’s standards, Dercole said. Over the years, the district has done minor stability work, resurfacing and drainage improvements to extend the life of the road. “But that regular maintenance is no longer sufficient
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