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9 MARCH 1992

Mayor Len Traboulay and
Council
City of Port Coquitlam
city Hall
2580 Shaughnessy Street
PORT COQUITLAM, British Columbia

Dear Sirs:

I am representing Mrs. Marti Giroux, one of the owners of
the property located at 2645 Kitchener Street, Port
Coquitlan.

I am instructed that Municipal Council has in spite of the
protestations of a number of residence directly affected
authorized the placement of a median diverting a heavy flow
of traffic into a virtually unprotected zone. Before the
diversion of traffic there may have been up to 200 cars
passing per day through Murchie Placa; now by council's own
reading this number has jumped to 2,200 per day. In some
cases J understand the volume was of the order of 300 per

hour.

At the same time virtually no safety measures have been
installed to protect adults, children or pets from the
obvious concomitant danger inherent in such an increase in
commuter traffic. This is primarily fast moving traffic

passing through.

My client's group is concerned that someone is going to be
killed if some immediate measures to remedy this increased

danger are not taken.

It. would appear that the only alternative would be to remove
the diverting median. Instead of discouraging commuter
traffic from travelling through a residential zone (i.ea.
Woodland/Patricia/Hastings/Lougheed) it has merely created a
substitute by pass route nanely

Kitchener/Clayton/Tuohey/Murchie. Arguably this has made
the situation much worse. Patricia Street has paved

sidewalks; neither Kitchener, nor Clayton, nor Tuohey, nor
Murchie have anywhere safe for pedestrians.

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