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x highway 7-12 to the west and highway 35 not far to the PORT PERRY STAR -- Wednesday, Dec. 17, 1975 -- 15 Reader's Viewpoint (continued already. The new highway near Uxbridge will handle lots of traffic. We have east. Anyway, making the Oshawa road into a major route can only create prob- lems in the south. You just can't channel large amounts ot traffic into a city like Oshawa and expect things to go well. I'd say that Lilla and the Oshawa road should - be left as they are.' Those people who insist" on using them, and going through the centres of Oshawa, Colum- bus, Port Perry, Sonya, and Manilla will just have to go more slowly for the privi- lege of doing so. The fates of these. town are more ®' important than- getting the LJ 4 , travellers to their destin- ations - ten minutes or so more quickly than last year. An immediate action which could be taken to facilitate traffic flow is to improve concession 7 across .the _ north end of Port Perry to highway 7-12. This is a practical and non-disruptive way of handling out of town traffic. Widening Lilla Street is not. Adding a parking lane to" Lilla Street can only have undesirable results, no matter from what angle you view the prospect. If it is being done to handle some yet unseen volume of traffic, it is an almost prehistoric solution to the problem. It will cost the town a great deal of aesthetic value and in the end it will not solve the problem. It has been shown time and time again that such traffic routes con- tinually attract more and more traffic, forever rising to the level of incompetence of the road to handle it. Eventually pavement stretches from doorstep to doorstep, but still there are too many cars and you end up having to build a bypass to handle them. You end up doing what you should have done in the first place, but the effects are not the same. One approach results in fatal damage to the town- scape. The other can save the town and provide contin- ually smooth traffic flow at the same time. The place for a throughway is not the way through the town. If we view this parking lane as an 'on the level' proposal, with no ulterior motive, there still are no valid arguments for building it. I have shown that a parking lane is not required. The addition of one can only make the street more «dangerous for drivers, ped- Nn * parking lane. estrians, and children... I'm certain that anyone would agree that a street is better for driving without a parking lane than with one. Cars continually pulling in and out and a restricted field of vision are just two undesirable complications to driving inherent in having a We have a good street for driving now. Why make it a bad one? As for pedestrians and children: their lot would indeed be an unhappy one. Human nature being what it is, some drivers would drive g and pass in that parking lane when it was empty, nq matter how well it was mar- ked as only a parking lane. Pedestrians and children trying to cross the street would face a much greater peril then they do at present. On top of that, we all know the validity of that old story of the children at play runn- ing out from between park- ed cars. With the restricted vision of the driver in' this situation, it can often end tragically. = Why set the stage for these problems when it isn't necessary? A wider street will increase the speed of cars there too. Wider expanses of pavement simply have the effect of making drivers go faster. We can't have more speed on Lilla. There are accidents regularly - at "the _ intersection of Lilla and Queen because people keep running the stop signs. I imagine the engineers could devise some fancy plan for lights or making Queen the stop street to avoid this" problem. What fun this would initiate. in the winter, having to stop. on a hill coming up Queen or trying to stop coming down the hill! I would propose this two step plan for solving the accident problem at this corner. 1) Install flashing red light stop signes on Lilla at Queen. 2) Leave the rest alone. Faster travelling on Lilla would increase the risk of accidents. Leaving Lilla as it is will maximize Salety all around. I was extremely interested to see that you will gener- ously set up an information centre to educate us on why you feel it a crucial matter to widen our street. I wonder if the, people know how this defines your esteem of us? You obviously don't think that we deserve much say in this matter, giving us the lowest level of tokenism as -- "our participation. I think that we deserve more than this, especially as we show- ed such great interest in this matter before you were moved to allow .us such meager participation. What happened to those opinions that we expressed when this grand plan was first announced anyway? It seems they were not even given the dignity of a hear- ing. By reading the paper I guess that you did hear that there was opposition to hav- ing all those lovely trees cut down. I am still skeptical of people who claim that they will replace the 100 year old trees when they're done though. The sort of treatment we are receiving, contrary to what you may believe, does not endear us to regional government. It does not make us bow and scrape in awe of your mighty power: -" It makes us damn angry. Why don't you try to attain our affections by practicing some good old-fashioned democracy; by giving the people's views their due con- sideration? * We were assured that regional government was going to make government at the municipal level more efficient. However we are seeing, in examples like this Lilla Street issue, what many of us feared: an increase in impermeable bureaucracy, diminishing . control over our own affairs, and the misuse of a mon- strous power. The ever-grinding wheels of this regional government can't seem to make excep- tions to what it sees as good for the southern urban centres when it starts deal- ing with the rural and smaller centres to the north. What must be your guilding SE principle, that any growth is necessarily good, is not held everywhere. Why do you insist. on' transmuting the standards of Oshawa streets to be the rules for the streets of Port Perry? Do you not understand that the two places are not comparable? Do you feel that you have the right to impose an ugly and cancerous growth on "us? Port Perry is a town of unique features which could hy, be developed profitably. Our town's assets are in. qualities which, admittedly, are not easy to quantitative- ly measure. Nevertheless they exist intangibly as surely as the Lake Scugog exists tangibly. The people here understand these. qual- ities and can work with them to our mutual benefit. We demand the right to freedom to decide on the fate of the place we live. It's not just the trees that you would cut, but the very roots of a neighbourhood. It is not just the town you would divide, but you would divide from the town, the possi- bility of developing in its unique way. We still have a chance to hang on to those intangible qualitites of our small town; the qualities that make Port perry a wonderful place to live. The widening of Lilla would be the death blow t6 our hopes. It would be the first "homogeneity. irreversible step in an irre- versible trend towards Port Perry would end up no different from any other town any where on the continent. We are not just protesting the cutting of tr we are out to save our identity and our quality of life. 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