North Shore Highway 1 reopens after protest Friday
Posted April 8, 2022 8:09 am.
Last Updated April 8, 2022 10:01 am.
Traffic was once again disrupted by protesters on the North Shore this week, this time along Highway 1 in West Vancouver Friday morning.
Demonstrators blocked a stretch of the Upper Levels between Taylor Way and 15th Street in both directions during the morning commute. All lanes have since reopened, though traffic was heavy for some time.
Members of Save Old Growth said earlier they had a plan to block the Lions Gate Bridge Friday, as they did earlier this week on Wednesday. However, an organizer told CityNews that was no longer the case.
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“Arrests are to be expected,” the group said Wednesday.
This is the third protest staged by the group this week. On Monday, several people blocked the southbound lanes of the Ironworkers Memorial Bridge during the morning rush, snarling traffic off the North Shore.
In total, Save Old Growth says 18 arrests have been made this week related to protests on the Lower Mainland and on Vancouver Island.
The group says traffic disruptions on highways “will continue” until the province passes legislation to immediately end old-growth logging in B.C.
Late last year, the province announced that it was consulting First Nations on deferring the logging of big, ancient, and rare old-growth trees across 26,000 square kilometres of forests in B.C.
The B.C. government says it’s developing, alongside First Nations, a “new approach to sustainable forest management,” noting deferrals are already in place on nearly 1.7 million hectares of old growth.
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