{"id":10061,"date":"2015-03-11T18:17:43","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T22:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=10061"},"modified":"2015-03-11T18:17:43","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T22:17:43","slug":"residents-set-to-win-fight-for-three-way-stop-at-wells-and-cousins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/residents-set-to-win-fight-for-three-way-stop-at-wells-and-cousins\/","title":{"rendered":"Residents set to win fight for three-way stop at Wells and Cousins"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Brock Weir<\/strong><\/p>\n

Persistence is set to pay off this week for residents of Cousins Drive lobbying for a three-way stop at their intersection with Wells Street.<\/p>\n

Councillors overturned a recommendation from Town Staff last week not to proceed with the three-way stop, following concerns from area residents. This decision is expected to be ratified at Council this week.<\/p>\n

Residents in the area have ramped up their concerns in recent years, citing speeding and other safety issues at the corner, near Town Park, describing the situation in a letter to Council as a \u201cticking time bomb.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Town Staff, however, traffic rates did not warrant a three-way stop in the area. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe average volume entering the intersection from all approaches is 124 vehicles per hour for an eight hour period,\u201d said Jamal Massadeh, Traffic Analyst for the Town of Aurora, in a report to Council, noting the threshold is 350 vehicles per hour. \u201cThe combined average vehicular and pedestrian traffic from Wells Street is 36 units for the same eight hour period, which is below the required average traffic volumes. Based on the low traffic volumes observed during peak and off-peak hours, the required traffic volume warrant has not been met.\u201d<\/p>\n

Neighbours, however, came to Town Hall last week to dispute these findings, saying they appreciated the findings of the analyst, but the day chosen to measure the intersection was \u201cpouring rain\u201d resulting in less-than-normal vehicular and pedestrian traffic.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is our third time here in the past eight years,\u201d said Emily Stewart. \u201cWe\u2019re definitely persistent. We\u2019d like to say we\u2019re going to go away if this doesn\u2019t go through, but we\u2019re going to be back and you\u2019ll get to know our faces. [In looking at the criteria] for a three-way stop sign, we saw that three accidents per year is also a consideration. The report said there were no accidents reported in the last three years, but as a resident who lives three houses up, there have been accidents.\u201d<\/p>\n

Added fellow resident Sunny Matheson-Davies: \u201cEven though you might not see it on paper in any research you have done, there are definitely accidents happening for sure. There is no safe passage for our children. It is just shocking it has gone on for this long. Forget cars, speed, and whatever, [with] the family sizes that are there now we just feel it is imperative there is safe passage for us and our children.\u201d<\/p>\n

The women added on the nearest block alone live 20 children under the age of 10, with the vast majority being under five.<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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