Howard Houle – Gabriola Bridge

Gabriola anti-bridge petition presented in BC Legislature

by Descanso Bay on April 14, 2015 in no bridge, thanks. • 0 Comments

Yesterday (April 13th, 2015) Doug Routley and Claire Trevena presented the no bridge to Gabriola petition in the BC Legislature. Apparently there were 2,269 signatures. Gabriolans who attended the session: Chris Bowers, Jacinthe Eastick, Veronica Hartman, Howard Houle, Leaf Kotasek, Sheila Malcolmson, Heather Nicholas, Steve O’Neill, and Penny Sidor. To see what was said, you can read the Hansard draft…

Anti-bridge petition to be presented

by Descanso Bay on April 12, 2015 in no bridge, thanks. • 0 Comments

Here’s what we spotted in the current issue of the Gabriola Sounder: Members of Bridge Free Salish Sea, Trustee Heather Nicholas, and RDN Director Howard Houle will be driving to Victoria April 13 with the petition signatures of 2,026 British Columbians, 1,591 of which are from Gabriola and Mudge Islands. The petition supports the Islands Trust policy statment against bridges…

RDN requests study regarding a bridge to Gabriola

by Descanso Bay on January 29, 2015 in no bridge, thanks. • 0 Comments

A bridge to Gabriola? The RDN has some concerns about that. There’s bit a bit of back-and-forth on what the RDN should say to the province about the matter. Now we’ve learned that they will send a letter to Todd Stone about the bridge idea after all. They’re requesting that a socio-economic study be done, to get an idea of…