No safe pla~ce to croiss.... r/v:~.'rVol. 14, No. 45 W ednesday, November 7, Mortuary officiais are een here taking away the body of a 49-year old Whitby woman who jumped f rom the lSth f loor of one of the White Oaks apar- tment buildings Iast Thursday afternoon. According to a spokesman for the Durham Regional Police Force, the woman jumped at Free Press StRff Photo 'I about 3:20 p.m. They aiso a- nwldgd that she had be en experiencing som e< personai problems prior to her death. She was pronounced dead at the scene by, coroner Dr. D.W. Conneily. 1984 28 Pates -R El /E PRESS tÀ ai C.A. R.eA. teils council residents don' t the town doesn't have a crosswalk 'bylaw and that drafting one can prove an expensive process. He also noted that the last time the issue of crosswalks was considered, it was discovered there was no need for them. 1"We don't feel it is warranted at this time," the director added. Coun. Joe Drumm responded saying that since that report was done, there has been considerable growth in the town and that it is going to have to be ad-' dressed again sometime in the near future. 1He also gave guarded support to Harrison's request ' -bu acknowledged, that 'le cost factor is going to' have to be answered. "4The cost is flot im- material but the impor- tant thing is' to have safety on the roads," Drumm said. R eg. Coun., Tom Ed- wards suggested that- town ,officials, contact the Durham' Regional Police Force-,and request that traffie on' Manning Rd. be policed more actively - at least until > ' Hamfson's problems can be resolved. 1Administrator BW Wailace told the com- mittee that traffie lights for the Manning Rd. andý Anderson St. intersec- tion are. being contem- plated in the 1985 budget proposaIs. He also noted that the extension. ýof Manning -Rd. is planned wantGO faci ity in their bacekyard ilesidents of ,the Corridor Area of Whitby definitely do not want the GO Transit system to locate its new main- tenance yard in their area. Some 150 area residents appeared before Whitby Town Counil's ad- ministrative committee Monday might saying that the facility- will ot only create noise and other 'environmen tal problems but will have a detrimental effect on property value as weil. The yard is to be built on Champlain Ave. bet- ween the Cadbury Sch- weppes plant. and the Osbawa border. It wiJ be used to maintain the new GO Advanced iÀght Rail Transit (GO- ALRT) vehicles. Leading the protest is the Corridor Area Rtepayers Associa-.. tion, but they were not alone. Denmis Fox, of Kirby Ores., presented the committee with a petition of 249 names ail protesting the develop- ment 0f the maintenan- ce yard. However, both Fox and 11C.A.R.A. spokesman David Bunn stressed that tbey are not opposed to the ex- pansion of the GO Tranr- sit service. In fact, both feel it would be 0f great benefit to the town. Fox told the commit- tee that the yard would give off "considerable noise" levels. He also noted that- studies condueted by the Ministry of Transpor- tation and Com- munications show that the site is not an ideal one.> "The residents are more than *Wel,, fouii- ded," he, said, "they have been substantiated by the Ministry 0f Tran- sport."Y Concerus, Fox added, have also. been ex- pressed by Canadian National and Canadian Pacifie rallways con- cerningliability in the _case of a derailment. But simply put, the residents simply don't want the facility in their area. "'We do not want the maintenance facility in that location," Fox said. C.A.R.A. spokesman David Bunn echoed Fox's statements in a brief interview atfter the meeting. Wbile there are other coneerns, the 'most easily recognizable is noise. Bunn agreed that the vehieles to. be used are, ,produce unaceptg'bl.e, noise Jevels. "They are still on steel wheels, on steel tracks, tbey are still noisy and people will bear it," Bunn said. "It (noise) is the objection that is more -easily recognized by people. "' The spokesman said that to date no reply has been received fromn En- vîronment Minister An- dy Brandt to a letter recently written by C.A.R.A. .president Colin Duddridge asking for an Environmental Assessment Board hearing into the project. In- that 'letter, Dud- dridge outlined C.A.R.A.'s eoncerns whicb, aside from noise, inelude the visual change in the area's en- vironment; effect on local wildlife; inereased traffie; Impact , on propwry values:; safety;' and healt , im- pacts both "from added pollution and psychological due to the effeet 0f the above poin- ts."ý However, neither protest seemed to have much affect on mem- bers 0f the committee. Coun. , Marcel Bruneile noted that the GO-ALRT vehicles were 50 per cent lighter than ordinary- railway cars, each is independantly powered by electrieity and are quieter and more comfortable. ",You're talking about people carriers," Bruneile said,- "They have a bend in the mid- dle. Theyare made to be quiet and comfortable." He also tbought they were overreacting. "It seems' there is more being imagined as a problem then there ac- tuaily is," Bruneile said, 111 think there is a, littlebit of overreaction here."' He did encourage them to attend a special workshop being held tomorrow by the GO- ALRT project officiaIs if they believe their con- cerns are weighty. The workshops, wiil be beld at the Wbitby Municipal Building at3and 7p.m. Mayor'Bob Attersley also gave bhis support to the development -of the maintenance yard. igWe are looking at a property. that is zoned Mi," he, said, "An Mi zoning ailows outside storage." The mayor noted that ran Ml zoning etould ap- ply to aimost any kind of industry -from hight prestige to heavy manufacturing. MHe also believes-that the yard willa ,have positive -'eeonornic benefits to the town., "The presence of the yard willcrate em- ployment," Attersley said. "I tbink it's a good thing for the, Town of Whitby."ý Planning director Bob Short noted that the yard will only be home to some 22 vehieles during the fist few years of operation. When operating at ful potential - probably somewhere around the turn of the century - it wiflbouse 150. 1And the only vehicular access to the 100-acre site wil be from Thornton Rd.- 1 .In the initial stages, Short continued, there wiIl be 140 employees working from the yard, but not ail, wil work on site. Many'wil work on the system itself and ýi]ll. not be, there ail the, 'CONTUD'0M'c. 20 Woman jumps from l"8th« floor 1984- Whitby Town Council wil consider instailing a crosswalk on Manning Rd. somewhere in the Ribblesdale Dr. area., .Council's operations committee asked publie works, direetor Dick Kuwahara for a report after hearing'a request from Bill Harrison, president of the East Whitby Co-operative on Ribblesdale Dr. Harrison told the committee at its meeting Monday night that the co-op is home to 125 children who when crossing Manning Rd. "take their lives in their hands." He pointed- out that Manning Rd. is a major artery - two lanes of traffie 'moving in either direction - and, while it currently terminates at Anderson St. there are plans to extend to Garrard Rd. "There is no safe 'Place ,to .cross,"9 Harrison, told the 'dom- mittee adding that to get to-'the nearby park, which is heavily used, chlldren must cross Manning Rd. Trafftie flows will in- crease with the comc- pletion o0f the plaza at the'corner of -Manning and Anderson St. and there already are problems every Sunday morning *because of' peopfle, attending, the nearby Holy Famlly Church. "You just can't get across Manning, it's as simple as that," Harrison said. However, Kuwahara Ribblesdale Dr. Co mop resitdents teltown athey want, cross.walk a cross Mannmg 28 Pages il - . . .