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Downtown highway signal swap unlikely By Lachlan Labere
market news staff
No substantial, traffic-altering changes will occur downtown along the Trans-Canada Highway without a buy-in from city council. A series of four recommendations from the Trans-Canada Highway Corridor Safety Study Working Group was presented to council Monday. They include the installation, of pedestrian countdown timers, installation of access awareness measures such as coloured crosswalks and a city centre gateway, miscellaneous improvements including crosswalks and lighting and the
completion of an updated Downtown Transportation Study. Engineering and public works director Rob Niewenhuizen said the countdown timers could be funded by the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure (MOTI) and ICBC, while the access awareness measures would require more discussion by the working group. All of the recommended improvements will be included in the 2014 budget for council’s consideration. The working group’s suggestions, and the group itself, stem from a larger list of recommendations in a TCH corridor safety study con-
ducted by MOTI and ICBC. These included a recommendation to move the signal-lit intersection at Ross Street to Fourth Street and restricting turns on Ross, proposals disparaged by organizations representing downtown businesses. But Coun. Alan Harrison, a member of the working group, said he doesn’t see any major changes occurring without council’s endorsement. Harrison explained the MOTI/ICBC study was done as a result of council’s interest in having an intersection safety camera installed at the Alexander/TCH intersection, so as to slow down See Proposed on page A2
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