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THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF PORT COQUITLAM

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OCT 13 198}
TO: Mayor and Council October 8, 1981

FROM: Public Works Committee c¢.c. Acting Administrator

Report of Public. Works Committee meeting held Tuesday, October 6th,
1981.

IN ATTENDANCE: Alderman L.M. Traboulay, Chairman
Alderman J.J... Keryluk, Co-Chairman
F.E. Peters, City Engineer
Doug Vater
, Delegation from Fraser Avenue for Item I
Alderman M.D. Gates for part of meeting

ITEM I

Re: Turning of traffic on Fraser Avenue

The Committee receivedia delegation from residents of the
2200 block Fraser Avenue. In attendance were Mr. Diplacito of
2238 Fraser, Mrs. Turner of 2226 Fraser, and Mr. Ehmann, brother
of the resident at 3123 Shaughnessy. The delegation pointed out
the enormous amount of traffic which is using Fraser Avenue west
of Shaughnessy street as a turn-around. The prohlem has been
particularly severe during the time that Kingsway bridge was
closed and 250 vehicles have been counted turning in the street
in one hour. Prior to the closure of Kingsway bridge,’ the road

was used less frequently but still by a considerable amount of

traffic. Some of this traffic comes from the Aggie Park area
and the occasional driver ends up on the street because he turns
the wrong way off the Lougheed Highway.

The main concern of the residents is that this traffic does
not proceed to the end of the street to turn around but turns in
the driveways and on the shoulders and boulevards adiacent to

the homeowners. The residents have attempted to protect their

boulevards by the placing of rocks or sections of broken curb
but this does not seem to deter the traffic. The residents
expressed the feeling that they were sick of the nuisance and
fearful for the safety of their children. They would like to
have the City install curbs along the road so that the turns are
at least limited to the driveways but, of course, would prefer
to have the traffic completely off the street or turning at the
end of the street.