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*"‘The main reason for my concern in this area.‘‘" Wright ex plained in an interview yesterday. "is the safe ty factor. Inconven The proposed new route, which Wright said has been on the books since the Lakeâ€" shore subdivision was first developed. would link Bearinger Road and Albert Street, inâ€" tersecting at Hazel Street. Wright said that he has sent out a letter concerning the re alignment to 1.200 Lakeshore homes, and of 160 responses _reâ€" ceived, 85 per cent are strongly in favor BEARINGER ROAD And, Wright said, a poll which he recently conducted indicates that Lakeshore Village residents strongly sup port his stand. By Melodee Martinuk The city of Waterloo should move ahead now with the proposed reâ€"alignment of Bearinger Road, says Ald. Glen Wright. 128th Year No. 12 By Chronicle Staff Writer Waterloo taxpavers face an increase of just over 15 per cent in the city share of their 1982 tax bill The city‘s finance committee yesterday slashed almost $825,000 from a prelimi nary budget presented to council ten days earlier That budget estimate called for expendi tures exceeding $15.3 million, which would have produced a 28. 44 per cent increase in property taxes. That translates to a $57 increase on a home assessed at $60,000 As a result of yesterday‘s cuts, Waterioo homeowners can now expect a much reduced increase of just over 15 per cent, or $30.37 on a property valued at $60,000 To achieve this massive reduction. the committee examined the preliminary es Contimued no pags 3 Waterloo taxes to rise by over 15% Act now on reâ€"alignment, Wright urges e 'l”h P & â€" expect a much What it comes down ist over 15 per cent, to. said Wright, "is a c valued at $60,000 matter of safety. As ssive reduction. the one woman put it, ‘it is the preliminary es a game of chance com Contmued no pags 3) ing . out of Parkside Drive"‘." â€" SEE PAGE 24 In addition. he said. the narrowness of the stretch of road between Parkside and Albert is a hazard in both winter and summer,. com pounded by the number of bicyclists and pedesâ€" trians who travel the road "Even in the summer it is scary. with two cars and a bike on that According to Wright there have been nuâ€" merous accidents at the Albert Bearinger intersection in recent vears because of the strep grade on Bearinger and the ob structed view of apâ€" proaching traffic on Al bert ience is not my main concern ... a delay of five or ten minutes in a lineup doesn‘t really make much of a dif ference." Dan gives CHYM‘rs big boost Wednesday, March 24, 1982 City share of the Bearinger Roadre alignment would be $230,000. Wright said However. s add Wright, "that will take five or 10 years to complete and we can‘t go on for five years with this situation According to the al derman,. many of those who responded against the Bearinger re align ment did so "because they wanted the west side arterial to go in first." ‘‘The priority (of the re alignment) has always been very low and I‘m pressing at this point to raise that priority," he said. Wright is concerned that council ~doesn‘t make any decisions that could preciude this project.‘‘ lt is inevitable" that the work be done, said Wright, but he would like to see the roadwork completed by 1983, with the city phasing the project over two vears Add to that the heavy traffic in the area be cause of the Parkdale Plaza and vou have an ~extremely danger ous"‘ situation. said Wright. City efforts to relieve the problem last year by installing a sidewalk on Bearinger, the al derman maintained, have only complicated the problem by further narrowing the road‘s width. narrow stretch of road," Wright said. Waterioo, Ontario The Region of Waterloo (ROW) Swim Club reached unprecedented heights last week when qualtity pertformances enabled them to capture the men‘s overall title at the Canadian Amateur Swimming Association winter nationals meet in Brantford. Making no small contribution to that feat was ROW‘s Victor Davis, a student at Bluevale collegiate, who collected five individual gold medals, including the one above for the 400m individual medley he won Thursday night. Presenting the award is Alex Baumann (right) present world record holder in the event. Mike West, a teammate of Davis with ROW, set the only two individual Canadian records registered at the meet, and with other strong performances from ROW‘s small sixâ€"man team, the club took the nation by storm. See Sport Waterioo for additional photos and stories. (Photo by Rick Campbell.) She‘s 90 years young! SEE PAGE 31 25 Cents at the Newstand GOLDEN MOMENT f ‘a. * *z Kendra‘s keen on computers SEE PAGE 9