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A8 THE OAKVILLE BEAVER Wednesday December 15,1999 Problem roads in area have been identified (Continued from page 1) % Grandm a's Little Darlings C h ild re n s w e a r B o u tiq u e "We feel it will take about two years for traffic to settle down," said McCleary. Problem areas have been tar geted in the road plan, such as a straight-line widening of Regional Road 5 through Palermo. "For the most part, Palermo as we know it would cease to exist," said Mr. McCleary. To preserve the town in it's current form, bypass and ring road traffic options will be considered. Another touchy area occurs at Regional Road 5 by Sixth Line. There, road widening is ham pered by M unn's church on one side and a cemetery on the other. "Widening puts the road at the doorstep or even inside the church," said Mr. McCleary, who added that staff are still looking for a solution to that problem. The price tag for reasonable traffic management along the two major corridors is a steep $111 million dollars over the next 16 years. And safety and operational improvements, such as shoring up the deteriorating Oakville and Bronte Creek bridges, could increase that by another $23 mil lion. When the roads were handed down to the Region in 1998, they came with $12 million in transi tional funding from the Province. But council voted to return to Queen's Park with a plea for more cash. That prompted Burlington councillor Mike Wallace to com ment, "I wish everyone luck at the Province trying to squeeze more money out of them." The silver lining is that the Region now has the power to improve the roads for its resi dents, said McCleary. "W hat we do have is an oppor tunity to deal with this in a proac tive way," he said. "Is there an opportunity to improve the liv ability o f residents who are already living there?" One way to do that is to pro vide noise buffering in areas where developm ent is all but parked on top of the roadway. Providing traffic relief could also come from a potential GO Transit bus link between Hamilton-Wentworth, Waterdown, Burlington, Oakville and Mississauga. And council should keep an open mind to the possibility of creating a High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lane on Regional Road 5. An HOV lane, reserved for buses and vehicles with two or more people only, is not likely to be necessary on Regional Road 25. But the efficacy of HOV lanes are still under debate, noted McCleary. "Their success in suburban areas has not been so great," he admitted. "But in the (United) States, they can move effectively 20% more people per hour than a regular traffic lane." Despite its congestion, Regional Road 5 boasts a lower accident rate than many similar roads. But, said McCleary, "the only time there is speed compliance is in a traffic jam." Once improvements begin, safety measurers can be built into the road. Raised medians will help sepa rate east and west-bound traffic, and grooved centres could warn drivers that they're drifting out of their lanes. And to keep traffic flowing smoothly, the Region will be looking at coordinating traffic lights. Then drivers doing the speed limit would be mostly like to encounter a steady flow of green lights. C h ristm a s S a le up to 30 · M a re e e % o ff · R o b in · C a tim in i · T o m m y H iifig e r · M in i m a n 1 9 9 9 G o ld A w a r d W in n e rs f o r B e s t C h iid r e n s w e a r B o u tiq u e Sherw ood F o r e s t Shopping Village 1 9 0 0 D u n d a s S>t. W. M iss iss a u g a · 6 5 5 - 1 9 5 2 C h r is t m a s H o u rs : Mon. - Fri. 1 0 - 6 S a tu rd a y 1 0 - 5 :3 0 . S u n d a y 1 -4 Announcement Dr. R aina Shankardass is p l e a s e d t o a n n o u n c e t h a t s h e is r e l o c a t i n g h e r d e n t a l o f f ic e to : DENTISTRY IN THE A B B E Y 200 North Service Rd. W ., U nit #8 O akville, Ontario By a p p o in tm e n t p le a s e ca ll a t (9 0 5 ) 8 1 5 -8 8 8 8 Catholic board executives get pay hike B y S a n d ra O m a n d SPECIAL TO THE BEAVER The chair and vice-chair of the Halton Catholic District School Board will herald in the new m illennium with a pay increase effective Jan. 1st. Trustees voted Tuesday night to increase the honorar ium for the chair ($10,000) and vice-chair ($7,500) to the maximum amount under the formula set by the provincial government in 1997 through the Education Improvement Act (Bill 160). C urrently the C atholic board chair receives $7,500 and the vice-chair $6,250. Their public school coun terparts with the Halton District School Board, how ever, are already receiving the maximum amount. 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