Page 8 tHE REVIEW | Wednesday, May 7, 1975

Saanich Peninsula school
trustee Rubymay Parrott will
urge the B.C. School Trustees
Association to change its
policy on bargaining units
when the BCSTA holds its
annual general meeting in
Vancouver this week.

The committee on health,
education and human
resources of the B.C.
Legislature tabled a report

April 30 recommending that
bargaining between school
trustees and staff be con-
ducted on a zonal basis rather
than a local of province-wide
basis.

A zone would be composed
of a number of districts of
similar economic conditions.

“The committee believes
that zones should be entered

Zone Bargaining Urged By School Trustee

into on a voluntary basis,
preserving the right of a board
of school trustees and a
teacher’s association to
exercise their local autonomy
by bargaining at the local
level,”’ the report states.

The present policy of the
BCSTA is in support of
province-wide bargaining, a
policy Trustee Parrott has

said she hopes will be changed
at the Vancouver meeting.

“Economic and ‘living
conditions differ widely from
one region to the next,’’ she
said. “It is not fair to negotiate
the same salary and benefits
for someone working in Prince
George as they would receive
in Saanich.”

Parrott said she would
support any resolution to

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By H.V. GREEN
Former Review Editor

It was disturbing to read that Sidney RCMP
recently impounded seven bicycles because
of infringements of the municipal bicycle
bylaw. Riding on the sidewalk and riding
without lights were the stated offences which
deprived the children of their mounts.

It was also disappointing, because Sidney is
an area where in the recent past a good deal
of effort has been expended in training and
encouraging children to observe the rules of
safe cycling. Sidney RCMP, the Safety
Council, teachers and private citizens were.
deeply involved in this worthwhile
programme. -
¥ This is not a purely local problem, but is
pertinent to the whole Capital Region. It is
related to an upsurge of interest in cycling
both as a healthful exercise and a means of
transportation alternate to the automobile.
The double benefit of wheeling under one’s
own motive power is not to be despised.

But in present conditions cycling on a busy
street in the traffic stream can be a perilous
proceeding. Forced into the curb and
stationary vehicles by impatient motorists
and indifferent truck drivers, the cyclist
needs nerves of steel and the dexterity of an
acrobat.

Cycle paths running between road and
sidewalk have been advocated as a solution to
‘the problem, where riders would clear of the
hazards of traffic and wandering pedestrians
would not intrude. Because of lack of road
width and the fantastic cost of such in-
stallations they are unlikely to materialise.

Personal experience may be of some in-
terest: forty years ago exactly we bought our
first house in a North London suburb nine
miles from where I worked in the West End.
Buying a three-speed cycle I rode it to work,
and home again late at night six days a week"
for more than five years, although public
transportation was both cheap and frequent.

Although the London traffic even then was
considerable, with buses, trolleybuses,
trucks, motorists and swarming pedestrians
providing continuous hazards, I had only two
mishaps. One my own fault when I took a spill
through ’nét noticing a small obstruction in the | citizens are of no avail unless discipline in the, .
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workman who emergd without warning from
behind a_ parked vehicle. As he picked
himself up with murder in his eyes I hastily
remounted and pedalled away like mad.

In 1935 the traffic authority decided to
provide cycle paths on both sides of the new
Great West Road for a distance of over ten
miles. This innovation was opposed by the
Cyclist Touring Ciub on the ground that it was
a plan to segregate cyclists and eventually
deny them the use of the roads. Although the
paths of six-foot wide pink concrete were
much used by individual cyclists, Club
members would not ride on them and
preferred the hazards of the trunk road.

THE MUNROMOBILE didn’t return to Beacon
Plaza as scheduled Saturday because of
Member of Parliament Donald Munro’s early
return to Ottawa due to illness. Munro sent
his regrets to Peninsula residents, via a telegram
to The Review, for cancellation of the

Saturday visit — part of a weekend in his con-
situency.

Today those cycle paths present an ap-
pearance of neglect and seem to be unused. In
several visits to that area in the past few
years no cyclists were seen on the paths
although there were many on the highway.
But at night, without exception, the cycles ©
carried lights for and aft.

In my day it would have been virtually
impossible to make a night journey without
the regulation lights, because the police were
uncannily adept at picking up the errant
cyclist. Likewise, riding on the sidewalk was
an offence attracting an appearance at court
and a fine. I understand that the same strict
enforcements apply today.

Police in the Greater Victoria area have
been less than successful in checking unsafe
driving habits: children ride sidewalks at
will, and at night lights on bicycles are the
exception rather than the rule. At the same
time,‘ more has been done in Sidney than
elsewhere in attempts to instil road discipline
in the minds of youthful riders, but one doubts
whether much notice was taken of in-
fringements prior to the recent impoundment
incidents.

Such action, and consequent publicity, will
be noticed by parents, and they perhaps will
be induced to give more thought to the riding
habits of their children and the safety of
pedestrians on the sidewalk. All the efforts of
RCMP officers, teachers, and concerned

Peninsula People

Guests for a few days at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Claude.
Johnson, 7143 West Saanich Road, were their nephew and his
wife, Mr. and Mrs. George Schwabe, of Nanaimo.

Following his attendance at an engineers’ convention in
Vancouver, Mr. Lee Schablitzke enjoyed a few days holiday

with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Schablitzke of Grilse Lane,
Brentwood.

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change the BCSTA policy in
favour of zonal bargaining, or
initiate discussion herself on
the issue.

In other business at the
meeting, Parrott will chair a
workshop on developing local
curricula. Under Bill 168,
school districts are authorized
to develop their own curricula
courses of local relevance.

The purpose of the workshop
will be to provide trustees with
background information to
evaluate the merits of par-
ticular courses, and make
trustees aware of the
ramifications of developing
curricula locally.

Some 350 school trustees
and senior administrators
from school districts
throughout the province will
attend the meeting. Attending
from Saanich Peninsula
school board will be Board
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