We’re here to stay

_ This issue of the Terrace Review marks the third an-
niversary of Terrace’s own locally owned and operated
community newspaper. | | |

The Terrace Review was created to fill a void —.three
years ago Terrace did not have a paper it could truly call |
its own. .

The first year of operation, this paper employed peo-
ple who had previously worked for a Victoria-owned
chain of newspapers. They stated that if we could make
the paper work for a period of two years, we would be
approached by the management of this newspaper chain
to sell our paper to their operation.

Sure enough, the time came and we were asked to sell
by this Victoria-owned operation and were told that with
new employees, they could make the Terrace Review a
_ truly professional paper. It was stated at that time that if
we did not wish to sell the Terrace Review, a paper
would be established in Terrace to put us out of
. Business.

— Through negotiation anything is possible and if the

Tight approach was made, it is possible the Terrace

~~ Review could have been sold.

~~ However, this was not,to be the case and we now have
_ another newspaper competing in the Terrace market.
_. The policy of the Terrace Review was and still is to
~ give fair, honest reporting and to cover the Terrace com-
munity news events with as high a level of integrity as
possible. The idea was certainly not to establish a Ter-
race paper for the sole reason of profit. .
~ With a minimum of advertising, we have been able to

deliver a product our staff is proud of and at the same

_ time keep the finances of the paper on an even keel. We
- never have and will not give our advertising away for
.-free. Hard sell pressure advertising sales tactics, hype
- and self promotion are not the way we wish to do
~ business. ;
- The Review is owned, produced, published and
printed in Terrace. The Terrace Review is the only
~ newspaper that can make this claim. os
_ Asa local business, we support this community in the
same manner as the locally owned drug stores, auto

~ dealers, insurance and music stores. It is the locally .

owned business that is the backbone that supports your
children’s sports teams, scholarship awards and the
‘many other activities that make life pleasant for Terrace
residents.
The Terrace Review, with your support, will continue
to celebrate many more May | anniversaries. MST

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Technology could solve
bike safety problem

by Victoria correspondent
Mark Collins

Cyclists must obey the same
traffic rules as automobile
drivers, but some technological
shortcomings in the traffic con-
trol system are encouraging two-
wheeled vehicle users to break
the law.

The problem occurs at traffic
lights which are electronically
controlled te change only on de-
mand. .An electrically charged
wire loop buried just beneath the
surface of the pavement creates
a magnetic field which is
disturbed by the presence of a
large metal mass such as an
automobile. When that loop is
triggered, the traffic light
changes to allow the vehicle to
proceed,

‘A bicycle, however, does not
have enough metal in it to trig-
ger most signals. The triggering
mechanisms are adjustable, but
if they are ‘made sensitive
enough to respond to a bicycle
they will also respond falsely to
a car in the next lane.

The classic example of this
problem occurs on.a_ busy
highway with a left-hand turn
lane controlled by a traffic light.
A bicycle rider wanting to turn
left rides into the lane and waits
for the light to change but it
won’t acknowledge his presence
no matter how long he waits.

The cyclist then has.a number

‘ of options. He can wait for a car

to come into the lane behind
him. That could happen quite
quickly in the daytime but at
night when traffic volumes are
low it could be half an hour
before a car comes along to
make that same left turn.
During this waiting time, the
light could change several times
to let cross traffic through the
intersection but still not respond
to the cyclist wanting to turn
left, While increasing his
frustration, it also presents an
opportunity to solve his prob-

lem. He can use this interruption
in the traffic to break the law by
carefully going through a red
light. Failing that, while the light
for cross traffic is green he can
dismount from his bicycle,
become a pedestrian and break
the law by crossing against the

. “don’t walk”’ sign to the corner

of the intersection to push the
pedestrian crossing button (if
there is one) and then use the

crosswalk to get through the in- -

tersection and on his way.

It is an unfortunate situation
because once deficiencies in the
system force a road user to

‘develop the habit of breaking
one traffic rule, the other rules -

also tend to be disobeyed. This
triggering problem also: affects
motorcycles, which contain so
much aluminum and so little
steel that they are sometimes
ignored by the traffic control
electronics. The aluminum does
affect the way the field
oscillates, but not as much as
steel does.

Jack Lisman, a highway safe-
ty engineer in the Ministry of
Transportation and Highways,
says cyclists should face only
minimal delays because their
main use is in busy urban areas

where there are lots of other -

vehicles to trigger the lights. He
suggests that cyclists use the
pedestrian buttons when they
are available. He also encour-
ages motorcyclists who encoun-
ter non-responding traffic lights
to contact the jurisdiction
responsible so they can be ad-

justed. ree:

If you ride a motorcycle and —
have difficulty triggering a light
you may be able to solve the
problem yourself by stopping in
a different part.of the lane. One
type of traffic loop is a single
rectangle which responds best to
a vehicle right on top of the
wires which are placed along
each side of the lane, The newer
quadrapole loop consists of two
rectangles side by side and is
most sensitive in the centre of
the lane. You may be able to tell
them apart by looking at the
shape of the tar patches on the
pavement.

No matter what type of
vehicle you drive, don’t stop
past the white painted stop line
because you'll be beyond the
reach of the sensors and have to
back up or wait for a car to
come in behind you to make the
light turn green.

What I would like to see is a
new type of pushbutton system
to solve the Jeft hand turn prob-
lem for cyclists. Conveniently
attached to existing light stan-
dards on traffic islands, they
could be pressed to trigger the
left hand turn light.

If cyclists have a particular
intersection in mind where they
often have to wait because the
light will not change, I believe
the provincial government or the
local government could be per-
suaded to install a couple of left
turn buttons onan experimental
basis. .

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The Happy Gang Centre for Seniors offers the following
activities: Tuesdays: 10 a.m., sewing and quilting; 7:30
p.m., cribbage. Wednesdays:
7:30 p.m., bridge.
of every month: 8 a.m. to 11
Monday through Friday every week: 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m.,
lunch. Second Thursday of every month: 2 p.m., general
meeting. For further Info., contact the Happy Gang Cen-
tre, 3226 Kalum St. at 635-9090. .

1 p.m., carpet bowling;
First Saturday
a.m., pancake breakfast.

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