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2- PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, January 16, 1996 " _"Seugog' 's Community Newspaper of Choice" Traffic study's 'a joke' 'Lunatics running the asylum', Pearce says of MTO By Kelly Lown Port Perry Star A traffic study per- formed on Highway 7A by the Ministry of Transpor- tation was a "joke" accord- ing to Scugog Township Council. "They did not deal with any of the issues we put forward," said Regional Councillor Marilyn Pearce. Councillors approached the MTO at a Good Roads Convention last year re- questing a review of the number of traffic issues onto Highway 7A, particu- larly between Old Simcoe Road, through the school zone to Simcoe Street, cit- ing safety reasons and traffic congestion. The township wanted a study looking at the whole question of operation of the highway through Port Perry. Free pregnancy talks offered During pregnancy it is helpful to understand how the baby grows, healthy lifestyle choices, common physical and emotional changes, as well as prenatal care and childbirth choices. The Childbirth Educa- fin Association of Durham offers a series of free talks: Q Monday, Jan. 22 - Growing a Baby (Lifestyle Is- sues, Healthy Pregnancy) 0 Monday, Feb. 26 - Pregnancy Changes (Physical, Emotional, Social Change) a Monday, March 25 - Choices for Childbirth (Iden- tifying and making choices) Talks are held at the Ajax Public Library, Main Branch (Harwood Ave. and 401) from 7 to 8:30 p.m. What the township re- ceived was a report on the highway through to Blackstock that did not deal with any of the specif- icissues they asked for. "The lunatics are run- ning the asylum. It's a poor study, a poor re- sponse to our concerns," Councillor Pearce said. The study did not in- clude a look at the inter- sections of Highway 7A and Old Simcoe or the traf- fic problems at the inter- section at Carnegie Street. Council . also sought input on the area near the Port Perry Coun- try Flea Market. Scugog Township coun- cil's request that the school crossing at R.H. Cornish be considered for a test site for flashing am- ber beacons was shot down last year. Council has sent a letter back to the Ministry ask- ing that a representative attend council to speak . about the report t Province won't accept GTA report, says Hall By Jeff Mitchell Port Perry Star Scugog's mayor reacted with surprise and anger Friday to rumors of the con- tents of the long-awaited report on the future of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). The Toronto Star reported Friday that Anne Golden, leader of a provincial task force examining the future of the GTA, will recommend elimination of the existing regions which now make up the area, and replacing them with a 32-member Greater Toronto Council. Municipalities like Scugog -- although the small township isn't men- tioned in the paper's report -- would not have full-time representation on the council, but would share a member with other municipalities of similar size, the newspaper says. The paper also reported that the Golden commission would recommend a number of taxation and service supply changes for the new mega-municipality. "If this leaked information is true, I don't think Anne Golden has been lis- tening to people outside of Metro He contends that the attempt to absorb outlying municipalities ~ and make them part of Metro Toronto -- Metro council, in fact, sub- mitted a similar plan to the Golden commis- sion last year -- is sim- ply a cash-grab by over- burdened urban HALL municipalities. The city wants the suburbs to pay for services and infrastructure, and that's wrong, said Mayor Hall. "I still say the whole thing stems around an assessment problem in Toronto," he said. "That's where it starts, and that's where it should stop." The mayor continues to express doubt, though, that the province would approve creation of a new political body that would yield so much clout. "That group would end up with half or three-quarters of the population of Ontario," he said. "I can't see the province going for it." The report from the Golden commis- sion 1s to be released at a Queen's Park Toronto," Mayor Hall said Friday morn- ing. . press conference today. A Courtice man faces numerous charges after a wild police chase near Port Perry Sunday night. Police said two drivers reported being approached by a knife- wielding man in an - Oshawa parking lot around 7:30 Sunday night; the man demanded their cars. The first driver handed his keys over. A suspect then drove north out of Oshawa in a 1987 Grand Am, and was spotted by police on Hwy. 12 south of Manchester. ran off, but the second Man is charged after wild police pursuit The driver of the car turned off his headlights and continued on, rear- ending another vehicle. He then tore off west on Durham Rd. 21, and gave police the slip near Utica. Later police found the car abandoned west of Durham Rd. 23, and sought the suspect on foot. He was found hiding near a tree, with a knife nearby. 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