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September 30, 1991

The City of Port Coquitlam
2580 Shaughnessy Street

Port Coquitlam, B.C.
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Attn: Mr. LR. Zahynacz, P.Eng.
ity Engineer

Dear Mr. Zahynacz:

Re: Proposed Reconstruction, at Westwood Street and Kitchener Avenue

I am writing to request your assistance in resolving the transit service impact of the
proposed Westwood Street and Kitchener Avenue reconstruction. We have met with Mr.
Kip Gaudry and Mr. Collin Morris on September 24, 1991 to discuss this issue.

1. Existing Routing

In the immediate area of Westwood Street and Kitchener Avenue, route #162 River Springs
travels on eastbound Lincoln, southbound Westwood, northbound Woodland, eastbound
Patricia, southbound Hastings then to eastbound Lougheed Highway. This is a pm peak
hour service which operates 3 trips between 5:00 pm and 6:30 pm. During weekdays, an
extra trip is added at 3:20 pm to serve the students of Westwood Elementary and Hastings
Junior Secondary School, The demand for this service has increased over the last few years.
A proposal is being made to increase this service to an all-day service as early as April,

1992.

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Ze Transit Service Impact at Pronosed Reconstruction

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The proposed realignment of Kitchener Avenue does not allow buses to maintain the
existing service routing without major geometric modifications.

As illustrated in Figure 1, the left turn from southbound Westwood to eastbound Kitchener
cannot be made due to the narrow width of Kitchener Street. Furthermore, the left tam
to northbound Woodland from Kitchener is prohibited for all traffic including buses, Ina
letter dated June 5, 1990, we commented on your conceptual design of this intersection and
advised that there would not be any viable alternative routing with the existing street
patterns. We further requested that a bus exemption for making a left turn from Kitchener
to Woodland be considered, Unfortunately, our comments were not taken into
considerations in the final design. iEM 1 PAGE |

3s Options | |

We have reviewed three options to resolve this issue. Please refer to the attached Figure

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