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WEDNESDAY, MAY 5, 2021 | Volume 34 No. 18
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Traffic tussle poses a bogey in plans to develop golf course JESSICA WALLACE
STAFF REPORTER
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ROYAL VISIT REMEMBERED
Thirty-five years ago this week — on Saturday, May 3, 1986, to be precise — Prince Charles and Princess Diana set the city abuzz with their Expo year visit, which saw the royal couple and thousands of their most intimate Kamloops friends get to know each other better at Riverside Park. “What a couple!” bellowed the front page of the next day’s Kamloops Sentinel, while the Kamloops News’ cover page exclaimed, “Wasn’t it a party! Charles, Diana take city by charm.” The above photo of Charles and Diana in Riverside Park was taken by Gordon Gore, the late founder of the Big Little Science Centre. To see more photos from the day, taken by Gore and others, along with recollections from those who were there, go online to kamloopsthisweek.com.
Proposed redevelopment of Pineridge Golf Course in Dallas is being tied up by a disagreement between the city and province over Trans-Canada highway access points to deal with increased eased traffic that would accompany hundreds of new homes. Hundreds of pages of documents obtained by KTW via Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act request show Pineridge Golf Course Development hired Bunt and Associates Engineering Ltd. out of the Lower Mainland to conduct a traffic impact assessment. A Feb. 25, 2020, draft assessment determined the 396 new homes (192 condos, 122 townhouses and 82 single-family homes) proposed would result in peak traffic flows to the Dallas Drive off-ramp and would lead to back-up of vehicles onto the Trans Canada Highway.
In addition, the assessment noted concerns about performance of a left-hand turn from Holman Road onto the highway, which does not currently meet performance thresholds of the city or province, specifically during peak morning times. The assessment states conversations with the Ministry of Transportation indicated a desire to close the Holman Road highway access. The assessment suggests the proposed development could be accommodated by extending Dallas Drive west through the development area, with a new, single eastbound highway exit replacing the two existing exits at Holman Road and Dallas Drive. Notes from an Aug. 14, 2020, meeting between the city and ministry, however, show the city does not support such a proposal, which it said would result in a new highway exit at the midpoint between Holman Road and the Dallas Drive/Todd Road roundabout. See CITY, A10
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