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PM40050478 THURSDAY FEBRUARY 20, 2020 ---DEAL OF THE WEEK--- 6MM THICK • 100% WATERPROOF! CLICK VINYL PLANKS 99¢/SQ FTREG 3.99 FROM A new collector road to be built later this year connecting Erb Street West and Columbia Street West is expected to help with traffic volume, though some residents remain skeptical. The extension of Platinum Drive by the Waterloo Costco is needed, they say, but won't neces- sarily change driving patterns. "I'm not convinced it's going to change traffic, really," said Den- nette Schott, a Clair Hills resi- dent on St. Moritz Avenue who puts up with cars making short- cuts through her subdivision at all hours of the day. "It's crazy here," she said. The dynamic of the area is unique, in that hundreds of new homes being built in the nearby Vista Hills subdivision to the west can only be accessed by Co- 'GAME-CHANGER' COLLECTOR ROAD ISN'T ENOUGH, RESIDENTS SAY See ONLINE, page 4 CLAIR HILLS RESIDENTS AGREE PLATINUM DRIVE EXTENSION MUST BE BUILT FOR FUTURE EMPLOYMENT, BUT DON'T EXPECT TRAFFIC TO IMPROVE MUCH BILL JACKSON bjackson@kitchenerpost.ca The Safe School Travel Committee members for Edna Staebler Public School (from left to right), Zohora Kara, Brent Schmidt and Brian Bernard, outline various concerns in a petition being circulated in their Clair Hills neighbourhood, and hope a new collector road alleviates traffic volume on busy St. Moritz Avenue. Bill Jackson/Torstar A lw ay s on lin e fir st a t w at er lo oc hr on ic le .c a/ co ld ca se THIS WEEK 'Solvable case' lacks witnesses from birthday shooting