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To Port Hardy MOUNT ALFRED CASEMENT 1800M MOUNT MOUNTAIN ABANDONED PEAK ALBERT TRICOUNI PEAK OVERLOOK Lausman Pass MOUNT WASHINGTON MOUNTAIN 1215m BC FERRIES COMOX POWELL RIVER JERVIS INLET SQUAMISH Two Roads to Prosperity Savings from BC Ferries operating costs pegged at $855 million ike Rome of another day, in British Columbia today, all roads (and most ferries) lead to Vancouver. A large percentage of all goods and people has always passed through our commercial hub, which is also the pivot point of the First Crossing LL of our mountainous province. We must travel 500 miles north to reach the Second Crossing, Highway 16, which serves the resource belt, stretching from the port of Prince Rupert east to Prince George, then Alberta and beyond. We who live in the middle suggest that there’s more to our province than just its big metropolis and our northern resource belt. We also dare to suggest that our government, by helping those of us in the hinterland meet our needs, will also serve Vancouver very well and prepare the whole province for a more promising future. We of the Third Crossing Society suggest that the time has come to complete a new, mid-province highway that would, at the stroke of a pen and a modest amount of road work, • Stimulate the economy of both the north half of Vancouver Island and the vast area immediately north of the Lower Mainland • Create a new playground for tourists and new retirement havens for winter-weary seniors from across Canada, in a natural paradise; and • Ease congestion and its related costs on Vancouver’s highways, at its ferry terminals, and eventually in its port. continued on page 2 . Connecting the Coastal to Banff and Interior Communities Golden Third Crossing Lillooet Proposed Fixed Link Whistler Brackendale Squamish www.thirdcrossingsociety.com MT. WHISTLER MTN. MT. GARIBALDI MT. WEART MARRIOTT SETON MOUNT BREW COLUMBIA MTNS. 2175M MOUNT 1875M COLE TRACHYTE HILLS INTERIOR PLATEAU CAYOOSE PASS 1075M To Banff WHISTLER PEMBERTON LILLOOET CACHE CREEK KAMLOOPS SALMON ARM continued from page 1 . The new highway would remove New Roads To Be Built much of the congestion at the main ferry terminals in the south and pro- duce enough operating and other Tunnel savings at BC Ferries ($855 million) to pay for itself (m$600 million) and De-Activated Logging Roads a second new highway between Port Mellon and Hwy 99 (m$400 million). Any amount not covered could be Active Logging Roads recovered by way of a modest toll, as on the Coquihalla. POWELL The beauty of the Third Crossing is RIVER that much of it is already in place: • The under-utilized and money-losing ferry run between Comox/Courtenay and Powell River; •The Sea-to-Sky Highway; and • About 130 kilometres of logging roads – reaching toward each other but not yet touching – from the Upper Sunshine Coast on the west and Hwy 99 on the east. These logging roads, upgraded to highway standards, connected by a modest 42 km of new road and one three-kilometre tunnel, would complete the connection. Do that, et voila, the prov- ince has its third crossing, the Port Mellon to HWY 99 connector, and has met four separate but related challenges in one stroke. We propose this third crossing – and the Imagine . road from Port Mellon to Hwy 99 – with one eye on the present (those of us now living at mid-province) but with both eyes on the future – to a freedom of move- ment bound to attract retirees, businesses and investors, while relieving some of the congestion in the Lower Mainland and its attendant costs. ups ine- ry l All with just fer ore No m two modest road projects! www.thirdcrossingsociety.com.