Bill Cleverley, Times Colonist
Published: Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Langford councillors were met by an overflow crowd last night as both interchange protesters and boosters crammed into council chambers to press their respective points. Detractors were there to show their distaste for council’s passage of borrowing bylaws to finance the proposed $32-million Bear Mountain interchange near Spencer Road and the Trans-Canada Highway without going to referendum.
More than 200 were in the room. But local developers, contractors and their employees outnumbered the protesters about five to one. They cheered on Mayor Stew Young when he challenged speakers critical of
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