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T have Lived on Ralear:gah Strwert for the pas. 12 years, and in
thaw time have raised two childran from the agas of one and
throae years old. These childram havea attended Westwood
alementary 8cheol, and Seavers’, Cubs’, Browniag’, Girl
Guides’, and Ccourrentily) Boy Scoute’ meetings after geno l
heure. They have alac. baen part of Ffund-Kaiming aactivitieon
for these organigationga, ugually run at weekends fram the
weehool parking lot@.

GQne child has bean attending Hasting# Junior High School for
the past three yoars, and the other snild will bea antering
@rads eight at the seheol this fall. We Have attended cheol
Meetings, Parent canferences, schaerlweading practices, and
basketball games at this school. [nN other wordw, our family
has Bpent a Fair amount of time art both these sehoola. often
necessitating the use of a vehicles ter trandportation.

Mow .that Murchie street hase been block@d at Patrioia, wo are
forced to use another reute 1.6 reach the s3ehools aon Hasri-~
inge® Str@et. The sity Engineering Department tuggested using
Woodland. but Gimoe the Murchi@a barricade was put in place,
trarfic on Kitehener avenue has increaged, and reaching tha
Waoadland/(Wastwmod intergeaction has became diffioule.

There 18 Space for only four carsz en the Kitchener realign-
ment Cin ferant of the new davelopmant? bafore the meridian
sQueenee traffic inte one lane. Whan more than four cars
ecaupyr the left. turn lane to Weartwood, access t0 Woodland
from Kitehener is blocked, unlems thoge firat four oars
clear the interBeatian whan the traffic Signals change. At
certain times of day, south and east bound «traffic on Wagstu-
wood backs up to the inters@metian, Ppravanting left turns
“from Kitchener “Woodland onto Westwood. Oncaming traffic and
Pede@egtrisns in the ocrasg@ walk, algo delay left turna, so
traffic along Kitchener back#® up sgain.

A journey to Hastings saenool fram Raleigh, that ance took
three to five minuteg, cam mow take upwards oF ten minutog@.
Oriving toe sechnoml via a left turer ante Westwood, laft onta
Lougheed and laft aontea Haweting&® can take fifteen minutos.

Whar the new development is ocasupiead, and reaidents attempt
to enter the Kitchener reraalignmant fram the lanoway adjacent
to their fpreperty, the bottleneck created by the maridian
new, will beoome an avean bigger problem, with additions t..

cars entering tre intergestion at that poine.

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