HomeMy WebLinkAboutWD-101-81 TOWN OF NEWCASTLE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT
Director's Report to Public Works Committee of September 15, 1981.
Item: WD-101-81.
Date: August 26, 1981.
Subject: Intersection of Holt Road and South Service Road,
Darlington. �
Recommendation:
THAT By-Law 75-21 be amended to designate the South Service Road,
from Waverley Road to Courtice Road, as a 'through' road and,
further, that improvements to the South Service Road intersection
with Holt Road, such as traffic signals, be discussed with Ontario
Hydro and if these and/or other improvements are deemed necessary
and can be agreed upon by all parties, them they be initiated as
soon as possible.
Report:
During the preparation of a Through Highway By-Law in 1975, the
South Service Road was not designated as a 'through' road. At that
time the road allowance between Lots 20 & 21, Broken Front Concess-
ion (Holt Road, south of the service road) was already in existence
and was considered as the 'through' road.
In 1977, the road allowance between Lots 20 & 21, Broken Front
Concession, from the South Service Road to Lake Ontario, was closed
and conveyed to Ontario Hydro; this action, plus the development
of the Darlington Generating Station, has resulted in additional
traffic through the intersection of the South Service Road and
Holt Road, and with increased activity at the Generating Station,
there is every reason to believe that the upward trend in the
A.A.D.T. will continue.
It is felt that, given the present and probable future circumstances,
the South Service Road, where it intersects the road allowance
between Lots 20 & 21, should be the through road and to accomplish
this By-Law 75--21 will require an amendment.
'1
I