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Maple Avenue crossing unsaf SECTION A THE HERALD Wednesday February 1H1 Page 3 This j- tarold bridge Maple the Georgetown CNR tracks Is once again subject of near In rrsldrnls a car took the entrance to the bridge too and slammed into the guar J rails though no one was hurl In the Incident recall pointing out the traffic situation at the bridge to town council Ion live years ago and say It only a matter of time before a or driver Is killed The structural condition of the bridge the subject of a recent engineering study also worries resident who feel that its light load posting won I deter larger trucks from using It as a shortcut to Maple Herald photo Halton squeezes MOE for Site F funding By CHRIS Herald Staff Writer Hoi Ion region Is determined to make the provincial environment ministry pay for a recent decision on lis contro versial proposed garbage dump in Milton During Inst Wednesday council meeting acting chief administrator Dennis charged that environment minister Harry changed the rules of the game Feb when he decided that public hearings on Site will be held under the broad based conditions of the Environmental Assessment Act The province Mr said should be asked to pay the estimated that will be needed as a result to look at other landfill site possibilities in the region fad the minister ordered the hearings held under the ronmcntal Protection Act only evidence concerning Site itself excluding other sites would be admitted Over has been spent on Site located near the town Trcmalne Britannia Roads intersection including engineering fees and legal costs While the town of Milton and a member citizens group opposed to destroying prime agricultural land at the location are pleased with the ministers decision regional councillors arc concerned that the additional expense may Jeopardize other solid waste management plans for unless the province picks up the tab In a lengthy report Mr stated he felt that more than enough money had already been spent studying landfill site ties adding that there Is no evidence Site will become an environmental disaster if turned Into a garbage dump But Milton regional con tin gent excluding Brad Clements absent from Wednesday council meeting opposed the region bid for provincial funding and a further recommendation Imploring the town to obey an Ontario Municipal Board ruling allowing the property to be rezoncd for the landfill site Calling any decision aimed at the solution to garbage problems morally and environmentally wrong Milton Coun BUI Johnson said the region brought the Site headache upon itself Earlier councils he said were 111 advised by previous studies proposing the location as the best of II sites In Halton to accommodate the region future waste disposal needs However councillors unanimously supported a gesture of good faith on Police search Credit Continued from page A1 two weeks prior to the field trips regardless of whether they have gone on he trip before Mr Allen said The trips are supervised by a ratio of one Instructor for twelve Students from grades four through eight go on the field trip each year In ell seasons this Is the first time since the school began this pro gram that an accident has occurred Mr Allen said of the region waiving interest charges on legal costs Incurred by the Brltanma citizens group during Its unsuccessful 1978 contest against rexonlng the Site lands Although the region is fast approaching its dump capacities at sites in Burlington and Oakville Mayor Harry Barrett warned that residents in southernmost munici politics are entitled to the same kind of lengthy delibera lion which has preceeded Site if the search for a new garbage dump continues We re asking nothing less than the same kind of invesd gallons for and Burlington if the dump heads down our way he said slamming area politicians George Kerr and James Snow for not telling us how to get out or this mess While some councillors proposed amending The Regional Municipality of Act to allow individual muiucl pah ties to operate Ihclr own landfill sites Hills Mike Armstrong denounced the idea Let back into reality he sold You re never going to go back to the old system of having four dumps in four While a site in Ashgrove south of Stewarttown was considered several years ago as a possible garbage dump the most favored alternative to Site lies in Burlington Known as Silo A the 158- Burlington shale quarry owned by National Sewer Pipe of Canada Ltd could become a privately operated landfill site Private projects ore as yet unaffected by the Assessment Act Take a course in Hills this spring The University of Waterloo will that- courses in Halton Hills this spring and you re invited to attend the classes You can attend the lee lures free of charge simply for per interest or vou may register and take them for university credit The literature of Ontario will look at such writers as Stephen Robertson Davies and Margaret At wood Educational Psychology will ex amine the classroom factors that in fluence the of learning Family Therapy will focus on the un derstandtng and treatment of family problems Lectures will be given at the Acton Public Library River Street For more information call the public libraries in Acton or Georgetown 416 877 or come to the first meeting of subject that interests you The Literature of Ontario English April June 22 Prof Stan Family Therapy Social Work 32IR R22 Tues April June 23 Mr AlIonBross Educational Psychology Psychology 212 April June Mr Ted Young University of Waterloo Residents fear bridge danger By CHRIS Herald Writer Residents living near the Maple Avenue railway bridge west of the Georgetown fire- hall are convinced the struct is architecturally Unsound and say its only a matter of time bctoro traffic over the bridge lakes a life Its unreal the number of cars which have missed the bridge or gone through the railing Dean told The Herald Sunday It amazing no one been killed While Mr and his mother Anna year res of the small neighbour hood on the west side of the tracks have seen at least six tors slide into the ravine arc concerned about the gc dclenorating structural condition Maintained by Canadian Notional Railways the bridge was the subject of a recent engineering study sponsored by the lawn and released to councillors least week Anoth bridge spanning Sixteen Mile Creek on the Third was found fit for heavy truck loads but corrosion of steel girders and cracks in the neil foundation of the Map le Avenue crossing have redu its load capacity from about 12 tons to just over five A passed by council res Irlcting the weight Its using the bridge may not be notion to present its collapse I don really trust the anymore Mr said I watched trucks go over it and you can hear it make a lot of noise Some residents appear con used about whether the bridge falls under II town or jurisdiction At least one neighbor feels ihe solution to both the structural problems and traffic headaches around the bridge would be to tear It down entirely I could cure less if the bridge was gone Marcel La roucne wild and I don t buy the arfiumtnt ihal having it there saves lime for people living west the bridge Mr pointed out that most of the large traffic users coming down Itivcr Road turning west would likely use the Road crossing of the Maple Avenue Bridge While it scorn forling to have the fire station several hundred yards beyond the bridge Mr said a lot of people don live as close to the firehall as we do We con use that excuse Contacted Monday a CN of Acta said that if the town wants the bridge bolstering its load capacity it would first have to the Canadian Transport railway transport com However sold John Jer ominous regional engineer of bridges and structures for CN if Ihe lown wants the bridge removed we wouid remove While major reconstruction of the bridge would require the lown to follow the prescribed route through the Mr said the railway readily makes minor repairs to bridge and maintains an annual Inspection of the struc Prepared by Phillips Plan ning and Engineering Ltd of Burlington the bridge study soys the Maple Avenue cross with regular maintenance will probably give good service for next five years Meanwhile neighbors have criticized the town for doing little to correct a number of dangerous traffic problems near the bridge despite a petition five years ago warning about imminent accidents on cither side of the crossing Two weeks ago residents watched as trucks rescued a ar which had rounded the corner leading to the bridge too fast crashing through the railing and ending up on the lip of the above several lines If some driven unfamiliar with the bridge are taking the eastern entrance to the bridge loo fast others rounding a steep incline on the western side arc often dangerously surprised by a hidden intcrsec tion just before the structure You take your life in your hands when you cross the bridge resident Betty said Some people are In Just too big a hurry when come over and they don t see people walking along the Mrs and other in the area including John and Tryphena Murphy about the safety if their children travelling to town garbage dump on the and from school With and condominium development In the area child rcn have playing near the bridge they point out A proposal to turn the form west side of the track into a park may mean strengthening the bridge but residents are concerned that the traffic dan ger increase unless some thing is done about the to the bridge Coping with death lecture Coping with death in the family Problems faced by the Bereaved is the topic of a talk by Margaret Dart a member of an organization called Berraved Families of Ontario The talk sponsored by the University Women Club will be held March at Centennial Middle School DALE CARNEGIE COURSE In Effective SpeakingHuman Relations Sell ConfidenceMemory Training Selling Your IdeasReducing Worry Tension FOR INFORMATION PHONE CLASS NOW FORMING by Crono a Assoc Georgetown 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