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WHITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17,1986 PAGE 9 Solution wanted for. Garden St. crossing A parent attending Iast week's scbool ac- comnmodation .meeting obtained at least a poie that the Duhm Board of Education will look into his concerns over the Garden St. railway crossing. "I'm very concerned about my children crossing the tracks,",!he told trustees and board planners and superin- tendents at-last week's meeting to discuss proposed changes to scbool accommodation in Wbitby. When he first raised the concern, transpor- tation manager Jack Upton, said the, Town wtas, trying, to get raiiwny gates in place, but that they may not be forthcoming until 1988. Upton said a pedestrian count in- dicated that 65 children walk across the tracks on Garden St. Upton said that was "«not a problem now." The resident then again raised bis concern Iter In the meeting, suggesting that a crossing guard be hired forthat location. Upton said the Town and Durbami Regional Police would decide whetber- a guard was necessary. The town would hire and pay the guard. Upton said he could make the request If s0 directed by the board. Approval wns recently granted for a crossing at Hopkins St. in Whitby, a location considered to have greater priority than Garden St., pointed out Lewis Morgulis, the board's deputy planner. 'Ohrparents also asked that a study oe made of crossing at An- derson St. "It's a rncetrack right now, MIl tell you," said one parent. Parents nf students at F.M Heard have also asked for crossing guard at Man- ning and Anderson Sts. The separate school board bas also requested a guarçd for Anderson, snid bot h Up- ton and a resident. Whitby council has asked Durham Region to seek a way to provide a safe crossing area for pedestrians, either witb traffic ligbts or pedestrian actuated ligbts,- at the intersec- tion of Anderson and Crawfortb Sts. Heavy traffie restricetei A beavy traffic restriction bas been1 placed on ThicksonRd. S., soutb of Wentworth1 street. Tbe signs were ap- proved by council on Dec. 8 following a letter from the Tbickson Point Residents Associationi asking the town to in-1 vestigate ways of diver- ting heavy traffic from that section of Thickson.i Residents complain that trucks travelling down Thlckson miss the turn at Wentworth St. and are forced to tura around on Thickson. They complainthat in tbe past trucks whicb have attempted to turn nround, have sid into tbe ditch blocking traf- fic for hours. The two warning signs will cost thetown $200. However, the signa are tempornry. The public works depar- tment notes tbat proper- ties soutb of Wentwortb are zoned industrial and when developed wili require beavy truck ac- cess. The signa are temporary unti properties developed. only the are Road work proposed.for '87 Durbami regional works committee bas tion la four-Jane urban standard. recommended consulting engineering firms Construction, estimnated to cost about $1.5 for two road construction projects in Whitby million plus another about $197,000 for in 1987. associated water and snnitary wpàrk, bas been Marshall Mncklin Monnghan Ltd. was planned for 1988. recommended for the widening of Rossland The road would be widened to five lanes ur- Rond (Regional Rd. 28) froni Garden St. to ban standard.' Thickson Rd. The anme widening bas been recom *mended Totten Sinis Hubicki Associates bas been for Victoria St. nlthough the project was not recommended for the widening of Victoria St. included in the five-yenr construction (Regional Rond 22) fromn Brock to Gordon St. program. The section, of Rossland Rd. proposed for Works commnittee bas urged that the reconstruction la now two-lane, built to rural standard while to the enst and west of the sec- SEE PAGE 22 4~7éôYJ~ffeJ) Sjust an old-fashioned stroli west of Brock,