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HomeMy WebLinkAboutWD-52-90 tit TOWN OF NEWCASTLE If 1... REPORT Res. By-Law # MEETING: GENERAL PURPOSE AND ADMINISTRATION COMMITTEE DATE: JUNE 18, 1990 REPORT #: WD-52-90 FILE #: SLBECT• FEASIBILITY OF PREVENTING TRAFFIC FROM TRAVELLING NORTH ON , . LAMBERT STREET RECOMMENDATIONS: It is respectfully recommended that the General Purpose and Administration Committee recommend to Council the following: 1. THAT Report WD-52-90 be received; 2 . THAT no action be taken regarding the traffic on Lambert Street. ------------------------------------------------------------------- REPORT 1.0 ATTACHMENT No. l: Key Map 2.0 BACKGROUND 2 . 1 At a regular meeting of the General Purpose and Administration Committee held on October 23, 1989, the Committee passed the following resolution (#GPA-728-89) : "THAT the Public Works Department Staff review and report on the feasibility of preventing traffic from travelling north on Lambert Street when exiting the parking lot. " 2 U6 REPORT NO. : WD-52-90 PAGE 2 3.0 REVIEW AND COMMENT 3 . 1 The proposed parking lot (Attachment No. 1) will be situated at the southwest corner of Church Street and Lambert Street. The proposal by United Counties Holding Ltd. calls for the construction of a three story office building and accompanying parking lot. 3 .2 The aim of preventing traffic from travelling north on Lambert Street when exiting the parking lot is to prevent an increase in the amount of traffic in the vicinity of Vincent Massey Public School . 3 . 3 The present conditions at Vincent Massey Public School require school buses to park on Church Street when loading or unloading school children. Vincent Massey Public School is presently undergoing renovations which will provide that all parking for school buses and staff vehicles be on school property rather than on Church Street (Attachment No. l) . 3 .4 The only feasible way to prevent traffic from travelling north on Lambert Street when exiting the parking lot is to make Lambert Street a one-way street southbound. In order to get into the parking lot, traffic would then be forced to travel east on Church Street from Liberty Street and then south on Lambert Street to the parking lot which would result in an increase in traffic on Church Street in front of Vincent Massey Public School. 4.0 CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 4 . 1 From the above it can be concluded that there is no feasible way to prevent traffic from travelling north on Lambert Street upon exiting the parking lot that will also prevent traffic from travelling on Church Street to enter the parking lot. . . .3 REPORT NO. : WD-52-90 PAGE 3 4 .2 It is also concluded that when the new parking lot is constructed at Vincent Massey Public School that the problem of congestion created by parking school buses will be eliminated. 4 .3 It is, therefore, recommended that no further action be taken in regard to this matter. Respectfully submitted, Recommended for presentation to the Committee, --- ----- -------- - ------------------ Walter A. Evans, P.Eng. , Lawrenc Kotseff, Director of Public Works Chief nistrative Officer BM*WAE*llv May 23, 1990 Attachment LITM VINCENT,MASSEY PUBLIC SCHOOL PARKING CHURCH STREET 0 z Y W W c m Q PROPOSED -� 3 STOREY OFFICE BUILDING PARKING KING STREET J y kfC IOWE L$TJ'`V -"" -' MARC 000 CRES rc LAH y~ ��'YCr ALE%ANUER TR A o U w WM-79I\�A. SUBJECT S0?okM-7 srw O O ISLE AVE SITE M-804 a Y M Jy 1f ROYAL a = PINES S T 3'`' C RC 5T. M-782 by 1 S E. HIGHWAY N° 2 ST. IN Sy7p�; ti HOBO OR. O da y C► St O£1' PRINCE S� A CRE& PR � � RES. T. J �a JANE ST. a IS OEERPARN WIlCE t CT. CT tC ,A �G ORES CP f�N�� bt NELSON �' �� HOBSS C WTl^ -90 O KEY MAP AY11TllTACIIME.7N7 T NO.1 1029 i