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Five years ago, traffic had been voiced as a major concern at several public meetings by residents in all parts of this neighbourâ€" hood. Combined preâ€"closure DAILY traffic It is time that the issue of the closures of Herbert and Willow Streets is laid to rest, and a few facts are presented. The overâ€" riding issue in this and previous discus sions has always been the control of through traffic in a core residential neighâ€" borhood. Traffic counts justified closures _ LETTERS The answer seems obvious. No one group should be responsible for running the carnival, rather it should be a joint effort. The city has said it would take over running the festival, but doesnR"t want the money difficulties. That would leave fundâ€"raising to be done by the chamber and BIA. Whatever the approach, the busker carnival is too good to lose. It added a spark of life to Waterloo‘s core during its sixâ€" day run, attracting an estimated 50,000 people. And anything that draws people together has got to be good for business and the entire, which is what the city, the chamber and BIA are all about. For your information, that expense could amount to $50,900 next year; this summer‘s carnival cost $34,421 to stage, with only $35,308 collected through fundâ€"raising, leaving a $3,000 shortfall. The extent of the trouble is harder to quantify, since most of the organizational work was done by volunteers. _ _ EDITORL Don‘t abandon the buskers It‘s so Waterloo. They‘ve got a good idéd, but don‘t know what to do with it. TE idea is the Waterloo Busker Carnival, which was created two years ago by the Waterloo Chambersof Commerce to celebrate its 1% Only, now the birthday has passed and the chamber C w the trouble and expense of running the carnival. So they turn to the city, trying to leave the festival on the culture and recreation department‘s doorstep. You guessed â€" they, too, don‘t really want the trouble and expense. Now the carnival is being peddled to the Uptown Waterloo Business Improvement Area, which is debating whether it wants the trouble and expense. Waterioo Chronicle is published every Wednesday by Display Advertising: Maureen McNab Teresa Clemmer Gerry Mattice Don Steeves Pete Cudhea (Sports editor) Keren Adderley Deborah Crandall News Editor: Melodee Martinuk Chronicle The Fairway Group Incorporated Subscription rates 215 Fairway Rd. S., $32 yearly in Canada, Paul Winkler Waterloo Town Square 75 King St. South, Suite 201 Waterloo, Ontario N2J 1P2 Telephone News Line Fax. No. i§| 886â€"2830 886â€"3021 886â€"9383 Major Accounts: Bill Karges Rick Campbell Jerry Fischer Ray Lakhan Circulation Manager: Greg Cassidy Contrary to some opinion, the survey circulated by the city was NOT a referenâ€" dum but simply a request for an opinion. Council had clearly stated on Sept. 24 that volumes (accounting for twoâ€"ways) on Herbert and Willow (deemed "local" streets) were approximately 2,840 cars and trucks, while other "local" streets such as Alexandra, Dunbar, Dorset, Sandowne and Hickory carried between 483 and 882 daily! In fact, "collector" streets â€" Central and Marshall â€" only had 1,965 and 2,114 cars daily in traffic counts. Also, using Herbert Street instead of King is shown to save only 30 seconds! fourâ€"toâ€"one opposed as reported by the press. ALL traffic experts have stressed that the alternate, stop signs, are ineffecâ€" tive to control traffic volume and speed, and indeed lead to disregard by the driver. That is why our requests for threeâ€"way game". There were 608 mfiey:s d;hâ€"vâ€"e};d', but only 366 returned. Obviously, it was not a burning issue for 157 households, which, combined with those in favor, made an almost even split. Interestingly, of those opposed, nearly oneâ€"third recognized the seriousness of the situation by favoring an :\ltemate method. This is not nearly the this was not to be used as a "numbers If you could have one dream come true, what would it be? tn nn ne m n n en ut tee i i 2000 6@ m Christmas, that everyone has a wonderful Christmas." "This environment thing, it bothers me. I‘d like someone to do something about it." "I guess seeing that it‘s Pamela Naylor Sean Purtle Waterloo stops over the last 15 to 20 years have been Bermuda (visiting Kitchener) "I wish we‘d do something about the environment inâ€" stead of talking about it, so we‘d leave someth 'M ring for the "World peace. Get all that Yvoune Irons Waterloo Jacquelyn Lumsden Reo ‘Waterloo