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CLARINGTON TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT ADVISORY COMMITTEE
MUNICIPALITY OF CLARINGTON
Minutes of Meeting
Thursday May 18,2006 at 7:00 p.m.
PRESENT:
Andrew Kozak (Chair)
Councillor Don MacArthur
Gord Lee
Lisa Robinson
Andrew Bouma
Glenn Wallis (Vice-Chair)
Clayton Morgan
Dave Rickard
Dirk Zinner
David Duffie
ALSO
PRESENT:
Leslie Benson, Manager of Transportation & Design
Ron Baker, Traffic & Transportation Coordinator
Constable Keith Richards
Stuart McAllister, Road Safety Coordinator, Durham Region
Jenny Bilenduke, Recording Secretary
REGRETS:
Tony Cannella, Director of Engineering Services
1.0 ADOPTION OF MINUTES
MOVED by Gord Lee; SECONDED by; Dirk Zinner
THAT: "The minutes of the April 20, 2006 meeting be approved with the
following changes:
Page 1 - Dave Rickard moved from "Absent" to "Regrets".
Page 4 - Bus Bays
Change "installed at the Harmony Road exit", to "installed at Harmony Road
south of Adelaide".
2.0 ITEMS FOR INFORMATION
a) Road Watch-(Ron Baker)
Andrew Kozak advised that after many years of exemplary service in
supporting Road Watch, Ron Radcliffe has submitted his letter of
resignation for personal reasons. The Durham Regional Police Service
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will work to replace Ron with another person who will be willing to
step into this role. Gord Lee expressed an interest in obtaining further
information about this role.
There are no statistics to report this month.
Traffic Watch Update-(Ron Baker)
Ron advised that this program has not started yet this year but is expected
to resume towards the end of May or beginning of June.
c) Highway 407 Update-(Leslie Benson)
Leslie advised that she attended a Hi~hway 407 Municipal Technical
Advisory Group meeting on May 1 i , 2006 and that the group is at the
407 East Environmental Assessment stage. At that meeting a presentation
was made to outline problems and opportunities, discuss goals, present
potential alternatives and identify next steps.
There is concern that already there is a significant east-west capacity
deficiency that cannot be addressed by widening Highway 401. For this
reason potential alternatives to the undertaking were presented and
discussed. For those who may be interested in learning more about these
alternatives, Public Information Centres are planned starting May 30th
from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the Garnett B. Rickard Recreation Complex
in Bowmanville. Another session will be held in Oshawa on May 31 st. A
third will be at Ajax Community Centre on June ih and a fourth is to be
held at the McKinney Centre in Whitby on June 8th.
Further information may be obtained by calling Mr. D. Allingham, P.
Eng., Consultant Project Manager, TSH at 1.866.840.5529 or Mr. D.
Remolino, P. Eng., MTO Project Manager at (416) 235-5576. Additional
information may be obtained at the project website www.407eastea.com.
3.0 AGENDA ITEMS FOR DISCUSSION
a) Radar Presentation - Keith Richards
Keith presented an overview of speed detection initiatives in Clarington
and explained that the goal is to tailor the strategies the police use to suit a
community which is a suburban/rural mix. In Clarington that ideal mix
includes pacing, Python radar, Decatur radar and ultralight laser.
Regardless of the strategy used the Police need to be proficient and
mindful if the ticket is to stand up in a court of law.
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4.0 NEW BUSINESS AT DIRECTION OF CHAIR
a) Items of Interest to the Committee
Traffic Lights - Bowmanville Mall
Traffic lights have been installed in front of the Bowmanville Mall and
some concerns have been raised with respect to the challenge of making a
left hand turn into a residential driveway, when going eastbound. This
concern is being reviewed by Clarington staff.
All- Way Stop Request - Queen & Brown
An all-way stop has been requested for a location only 100m east of the
existing T -intersection at Brown St. and Ontario St. Ron Baker has been
out to the site and found that it does not meet the warrants for several
reasons, including the fact that average speeds in the area were 48 kIn per
hour. Ron will notify the resident.
Summer Meetings
Andrew Kozak asked the members to think about the summer schedule of
meetings. Typically the Committee takes one month off in the summer
and Andrew asked the members to think about which month they would
prefer to schedule off.
5.0 NEXT MEETING DATE
June 15,2006 -7:00 p.m. - Committee Room IA - Enter via Municipal
Administrative Centre, 40 Temperance St. Bowmanville, through the north door
on Church St.
6.0 ADJOURNMENT
MOVED by; Clayton Morgan.
THAT: "The meeting be adjourned at 8:35 p.m."