THE

CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF PORT COQUITLAM

COUN

MEMORANDUM
NOV 2 498;

TO: B. Kirk, October 26, 1981 :

City Administrator ; oo
FROM: F.E. Peters,

City Engineer
SUBJECT: Proposed Bus Route on Victoria Drive -

Public Works Committee, October 20th, 1981
RECOMMENDATION:

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That we stay with the existing bus service on the north

side of the City.

BACKGROUND AND COMMENTS:

Mr. John Mills of the G.v.R.D.
requested to consider a possible rerouting of the
which turns at Chelsea.
be rerouted to pick up the new housing along Victoria Drive.
Mills advised that the only way this

Transit Department had been
"Prairie" bus

ft had been suggested that this bus should
Mr.
area could be served without

serious disadvantage to the present users would be to reroute both

the "Prairie" and the

system.

This would mean taking the
Coast Meridian/Wellington route and
Victoria Drive.

"Coast Meridian" bus routes on a reverse ioop
"Coast Meridian" bus off the

serving only Wellington and

Other options were considered by the Committee but it
appeared that no other routes were
more buses and that the
lack of equipment.

possible without actually adding
addition of buses was not possible due to
The Committee therefore made the’ above recom-

mendation.and would expect that the situation would be reviewed
when the north side cf Victoria Drive is also developed.

F.E. Peters,
City Engineer

P. Eng.,