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Jeffrey Clough
2530 Patricia Avenue
Port Coquitlam, BC

March 9, 1992

Good evening! I would like to start out by expressing my
thanks on two points.

The first is to thank the Mayor for postponing the
scheduled demolition of the Kitchener Street traffie island.

The second thank you is to all of City Council for allowing
the residents of Patricia and Hastings to express their
opinions.

That said, those may be tra last kind words you will hear
tonight.

I do not intend to give you a leng lecture on the history of
the traffic problems in this area. In the last 5 years
commuter traffic from Lougheed Highway has used the
Woodland/Patricila/Hastinga route as a short cut. That short
cut is both East and Westbound traffic.

Local residents on Woodland/Patricia/and Hagtings streets
have been complaining for years of speeding vehicles and
excessive traffic. By excessive I mean far in excess of
local residents going to and from their homes. The
residents at the south end of Hastings Street have bean
complaining for years of traffic backed up to Kitchener
Street anc further. That is plainly unacceptable.

There have been four Town Hall meetings in the last 3 years.
Other than a four way atop sign at Patricia and Hastings,
little in the way of constructive action has been done.

Only when the apartment/townhouse complex on Woodland was
brought forward for rezoning did.the locai residents have an
opportunity to press their concerns over the excessive
traffic volume.

AS part of the realignment of Kitchener Street, ic was
agreed that a barricade of some kind would be installed to
physically prevent eastbound traffic from going onto
Woodland Drive. This did not address the problem of
westbound traffic from Lougheeed Highway using Hastings and
Patricia as a shortcut but it was generally agreed that the
worst problem was the eastbound traffie beth in volume and
the congestion at south end of Hastings Street. Finally at
least a compromise attempt.

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