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Home My WebLink AboutWD-35-95 THE COI IW., THE MUNICIPALITY OF CLARINGTON XXXX �HXIX� XX REPORT Meeting: GENERAL PURPOSE AND ADMINISTRATION COMMITTEE File#`-T(-)13 1 Date: July 10, 1995 Res. # Report#: WD-35-95 File #: Q- 05-28_ 35 By-Law# Subject: REQUEST FOR STOP SIGN, TRAFFIC LIGHT OR CROSSWALK CENTRE STREET AND MAIN STREET, ORONO Recommendations: It is respectfully recommended that the General Purpose and Administration Committee recommend to Council the following: 1. THAT Report WD-35-95 be received; 2 . THAT no further action be taken on this matter; and 3 . THAT Jack Colville and the Orono B. I .A. be provided with a copy of Report WD-35-95 and be advised of Council's decision. REPORT 1.0 ATTACHMENTS No. 1: Key Map No. 2 : Correspondence from Jack Colville dated December 29, 1994 No. 3: Correspondence from the Region of Durham dated April 4, 1995 2.0 BACKGROUND 2 . 1 At a regular meeting held on January 16, 1995, Council passed the following Resolution #C-14-95: i "THAT the correspondence dated December 29, 1994 from Jack Colville requesting the 1094 RECY—_R E «E nils Pn:r11Eo ON RECYCLED PAIm REPORT NO. : WD-35-95 PAGE 2 installation of either a stop sign, traffic light or crosswalk in the vicinity of Centre Street and Main Street, Orono, be received; THAT the correspondence be forwarded to the Director of Public Works for review and preparation of a report to be submitted to the General Purpose and Administration Committee; and THAT Jack Colville be advised of Council 's decision. " 3.0 REVIEW AND COMMENT 3. 1 This matter was referred to the Region of Durham who have jurisdiction over the intersection of Regional Road 17 (Main Street) and Centre Street. The Region of Durham's response (Attachment No. 3) does not support any of Mr. Colville's requests and is self-explanatory. The information on page 3 of Mr. McMullen's letter is related to another matter. 4.0 CONCLUSIONS 4 . 1 From the above, it is concluded that no further action be taken on this matter. Respectfully submitted, Reviewed by, N ; i Stephen A. Vokes, P.Eng. W.H. Stockwell Director of Public Works Chief Administrative Officer SAV/RDB/wc See following page for list of persons requiring copies of this report. 1095 i REPORT NO. : WD-35-95 PAGE 3 July 4, 1995 Attachments pc: . Mr. J. Colville 5367 Main Street Box 244 Orono, ON. , LOB 1M0 Orono B. I.A. P.O. Box 272 Orono, ON. , LOB 1M0 i i i I 1096 i r V 0 � � Q � J co Q z C� W SUBJECT °G INTERSECTION NENTR TREET w Lu cc H z m M U PARK PTREET OROS UB.TrCT W0 ` O I T a tre St. a� rk St. Srar'On Sr` er C:\ATTACHS\CLARKE\I7centr.DWG a� [DXRATN):�: JM DATE: MAY 1995 ❑ ATTACHMENT NO.1 KEY MAP WD-35-95 1097 COUNCIL RECTION 10 WTI 77 -AI)1367 JAN 3 1995 •CSz�9 �' o �,�HO ' MiUNICI(`ALIT`!OF CLARINGTON gn, S OFFICE AGENDA. � G EN DA ` f� Cz xx � . ATTACHMENT No. 2 1098 WD-35-95 I�it"I, 772 f CD CRKffUTION LE :..._, ACK. BY----- �� ORIGINALT MIES TO: FILE ZQ � April 4, 1995. The Regional; Municipality of Durham Works Department. ' Municipality of Clarington Box 623 :40.Temperance Street .•105 Consumers.Dr. Bowmanville, Ontario Whitby,Ontario- Canada LIN 6A3 (905)668.-772.1 Fax:(905)668-2051•. Attention Mr: R. Baker, Traffic Co-ordinator V.A. Silgailis, P.Eng. Commissioner of Works Dear Sir: ...Please quote our, 'ref: RE: Clarington Resolution No's. C-14-95 -Traffic.0perations--Main Street, Orono C-97-95 - Signal Operations -King Street, Bowmanville The concerns relating to your Council's resolution C-14-95 as received-from Mr.-Jack Colville have been reviewed. The review included the operationalaspects of the intersection of Main Street and Mill Street;pedestrian activity;collision statistics anti operating speed:and.conclusions arrived at are,as follows:. Main and Mill Streets Intersection The acute an of1VIi11.Street where it intersects Main Street makes it very difficult for southwest Mill.Street.vehicle operators to observe southbound'Wn' Street traffic. It was also noted that vehicles exiting Mill Street to proceed north on Main Streef could only complete .the manoeuvreby utilizing the- southbound lane of Main' Street. Reconstruction required to correct the alignment of this intersection would be very ' expensive due to the grade differential between Main Street and Mill Street and the presence of the high voltage hydro line. Although there is no history of collisions at this location; a.solution' to rectify the potential of collisions would be to make Mill Street a one-way operation in-the northeast direction between Main Street and Dickson.Street. . 7 i WD-35-95NT No. 3 2 r - 2- The change in traffic operations ori this section of Mill Street would solve the potential problems at-the Main Street intersection;-but as NO Street,is an off ramp for southbound Highway 35/115,the volume diverted onto the local streets.(Dickson-and Church streets. may not be'desirable. Traffic volume studies would have to be conducted to determine 'the amount of traffic entering Orono via the.Mill Street off ramp in order to assess the impact a change in traffic pattern would create. Pedestrian/Vehicle Volume Historic vehicle volume on the-section of Ri4onal Road 17 through Orono has remained relatively stable since .198.7 with'a two-'way average annual daily volume of 2,000 vehicles. .Observations of pedestrian volume indicate that the number of crossing is also very light.. The low:volume of vehicles provide sufficient gaps to allow pedestrians.to cross the 8.8 metre vide.driving,lanes without prolonged waiting. .The.combination of vehicle7pedestrian volume do not warrant the installation of a pedestrian crosswalk any .'. where within the business section of Orono. Parking' . During obseivatign studies, it.was noted that illegal parking (within corner restrictions) is quite prevalent:. This may be due to the.condensed business section and the absence of off street parking facilities. The.permitted parking area on.the east side of Main Street. between Mill Street and Centre Street does not impede sight.distance for vehicles exiting. Mill Street: The-installation ofa pedestrian cross-over within the business section.would further reduce the available Main'Street parking as "no,stopping".zones, totalling 45 metres, would be required'on each side-6f the street within the area of the cross-over. Intersection*Controls The suggestion of an additional stop sign to control southbound Main Street traffic at the Mill Street-intersectionor the 'installation of traffic control signals are-neither warranted. nor desirable at this location. Operating Speed Speed samples obtained by the use of radar equipment of southbound Main_Street traffic . approaching Mill Street and the north end,of the business section show that speeds are . well within the accepted range considering the horizontal alignment at.this location. The average recorded speed was 42 km/h with the-highest recorded speed being 53 km/h in the 50 kin/h speed zone. 3 109992 - 3 - Resolution No r-g7 95 The Region's position on installing traffic. control signals at. the Bowriianville Mall/Galbraith Court intersection has not changed from that as stated in a letter to the Municipality of Clarington'dated August 20, 1992..A copy of that letter is attached for Your review(Attachment No. 1). The requested signal.locatiori at King Street/Galbraith Court and the Highwa 7A/Plaza shopping centre in Port Pe isnot a comparable situation. . y . The requested signal in Bowmanville would be only'88 metres from an existin signal. There are a total of three accesses to the Bowmanville Mall, two of which acc e s Kin Street: g The Port Perry plaza signal is located approximately 200 metres from an adjacent si The signal installation was funded by the plaza own and installed by the Ministry olf Transportation of Ontario. The.signal installation was.designed and approved by the Ministry on the basis of a large retail development* slated for the opposite side of Highway 7A The Port Perry plaza owners funded the installation in"lieu of paying an annual fee of:.$25,000.:00 for paid duty Ontario Police Officers.to direct traffic at the plaza entrance on Weekends. The Port Perry"plaza has one access only. I trust this information is satisfactory for your future report. . Yours truly, AL(jm .H..McMullen Manager., Traffic'Operations Encl. cc: M. Lenters 1 099