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Difficult path ahead for backers of road extension 12Sttt You No. 50 Nomad”. 0.00m 14. 1983 Molodoe Martinuk Chronicle Staff The city of Waterloo and the University of Waterloo will have to decide how important construction of a Hallman Road or Westmound Road extension to their futures, and then push for it at regional council, regional chairman Jim Gray said Monday. The regional chair- man and representa- tives of the region's engineering depart- ment appeared at Mon- day's committee-of- council meeting to out- line alternative routes for the proposed road extension, and explain why the work had been dropped from the five- year forecast of capital expenditures. "I'm not saying it's impossible, there are other projects that can be dropped, but you have to convince regional council," he said told Waterloo's aldermen. "Your council is competing with six others." Regional roads and traffic director Gerry Thompson said con- struction of the exten- sion was given a low priority because stud- ies of current and fu- ture traffic needs indi- cate it is not warrant- ed. "There is enough overall capacity in the existing corridor to deal with the traffic demand," he said. He added. however. that other factors, such or all the special things associated with Christmas, none is more likely to evoke remembrance of past celebrations than the carols and songs sung through the season. This Friday evening the Uptown Waterloo Business Improvement Area invites Water- loo residents to remember Christmases past by joining in the association's second annual Old-fashioned Carolling through Uptown. For those interested in participating. a special pull-out section featuring favorite Christmas songs is included in the centre of this weetr's Chronicle. Led by a music student from the Univer- sity of Waterloo's Conrad Grebel College. carollers will gather at 7 p.m. in front of the Marsland Centre and walk along Dupont Street to King St., down King ending up at Waterloo Town Square. Christmas carol sing as development of UW's proposed re- search park, accessi- bility to Lakeshore " lage and the condition of the existing roads, may make the road- work necessary. "It becomes a mat- ter of judgement. as tn whether or not all con- siderations taken to- gether warrant con- struction of the road .._ there's a very big Polit- ical dimension to this decision." Mayor Marjorie Car, roll told the regional representatives she was concerned that the proposed spending plan only calls fur design of the roadway extension in 1988. "Not being on the five-year forecast is saying do nothing. yet when you look at the road. the traffic at THIS WEEK INSIDE i conducts KWSO Florio SEE PAGE " Beaver Creek and Hellman. the dreadful intersection at Beaver Creek and Westmount, the bridge, improve- ments are really need- ed before the five-year time span." She added that even if the new road is not built, money should be allocated for recon- struction of existing roads in the area. "I'm very concerned that even that isn't in it (the forecast)." Carroll said that city concerns will be in- cluded in a response to the forecast, which will be sent to the region by the end of the year. For the past year, consultants Paragon Engineering and a project team made up of city. regional, pro- vincial and UW repre- sentatives have been engaged in a study to determine whether there is a need for a Hallman/Westmount extension and develop alternative solutions. A preliminary report on their investigation released last week. outlines three possible routes: extend West- mount Road north of Columbia to Northfield Drive, at a cost of $4.7 million; extend Hall- man Road to North- field, $4.78 million: construction of exten- sions to both Hallman and Westmount, which would meet in a T-im tersection, 85.03 mil- lion. A fourth option dis- cussed involves exten- sive improvements to the existing road ttet- work, which it is es- (Contmued on page 3) uncommon-no 25°00”th Workers at Laurel Creek Nature Centre really know how to throw a party. This year's Christmas celebrations attracted visits from Mother Nature - even Santa took time from his Dec. 25 preparations to drop in for the afternoon, as always accompaan by his elves and trusty Rudolph. While visitors to the centre warmed themselves inside with hot apple cider and learned how to make decorations from natural materials, Laurel‘s wildlite leasted outside on the wide variety of edible _ _ - _ - .. --. . .; - 42A;_L:__ A-.--I.-- 1“ In}- Hanna! Ill-IUII-IU, wuvv- - "nu-"v ._i_e_ v_-'-_- -n -___ V treats. M the above photo, Michael Schulz (Mt) puts the 'iethhing touches on his own special creation, with a little help from Peter Hanson (was Rudy). to k-W Brier - ES PAGE 3 RUDOLPH 'HOSE' HOW Pat Manda