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Barriers halting highway cross
traffic at the Amity Road and
McDonald Park Road intersections
will be installed between March
13 and 15, North Saanich Mayor
Maurice Chazottes announced
Monday.

“We've been pressing for this
for months,” Chazottes said. The
intersections of both roads with
the Pat Bay Highway are among
the most dangerous sections of the
highway, he added.

“The RCMP have been talking
about this for a long, long time.
They consider the intersections
very dangerous,” Chazottes said.

The barriers will stop traffic
from crossing the highway at
Amity and prevent left-hand tums
at the intersection from either the
highway or from Amity.

TheReview

At the McDonald Park Road
intersection, left-turn lanes will
allow southbound highway traffic
to turn off the highway into Sidney
or northbound traffic to turn left to
reach the Sandown Racetrack.

However the barriers will stop
traffic from crossing the highway
or from turning left off McDonald
Park Road onto the highway.

The municipality began strongly
advocating the barriers once the
Ministry of Transportation and
Highways claimed the Pat Bay
Highway upgrade was needed to
improve safety, Chazottes
explained.

“This was a case where the
highway could be made safer
immediately without spending
millions of dollars.”

Scarecrow crossing guards
for Keating Crossroad area

Dummy crossing guards made
from plywood will likely be slow-
ing traffic on Keating Crossroad
near the Mt. Newton Middle
School in the near future.

As well, a better advance warn-
ing system of school crosswalks
for eastbound vehicles will be
installed by Central Saanich engi-
neering staff.

Council Monday approved a
traffic safety recommendation urg-
ing the school district to proceed
with the concept of providing
special signs to be set up when the
crosswalk is used by students.

Ald. Arlene Box said it is a very
severe problem with fast traffic on
a wide road.

“We should also offer some
encouragement to the police
department to monitor this loca-
tion to ensure-the safety of chil-
dren is being addressed,” Box
said. ;

Ald. Jack Mar said the police
have caught a lot of people speed-

ing in the area and quite frequent-
ly, the culprits are parents driving
children to school.

Mar said there should be two
crossing guards at the location, but
the school district has said they
can’t afford to pay for two.

Earlier in the Monday meeting,
council rejected a request for fund-
ing from the Saanich School Dis-
trict.

The district asked Central Saa-
nich to contribute $12,930 to pay
for the services of four crossing
guards — one at Keating and
Oldfield, another east of Mt. New-
ton School, one at West Saanich
and Wallace for Brentwood School
and another at Keating and Central
Saanich roads for Keating Ele-

mentary, at a rate of $3,230 each

per year. Z

Ald: Clarence Bolt recommend-
ed council file the request and
suggest the funding come from the
board’s budget.

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Dangerous cross roads fo be closed

Chazottes expects some com-
plaints about the barriers, espe-
cially from local residents who
will have to change their driving
pattems.

“We think it’s a small price to
pay for safety.”

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