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.No solution found yet for Veyaness traffic problem

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Heavy traffic along Veyaness
Road will not be relieved’ by the
development of a connector road
between East Saanich Road and
Keating Crossroad:

Central Saanich council shot
down the idea Monday.

The development of a Sea-
brook/Oldfield' connector was one
of the recommendations made by
the municipal traffic safety com-
mittee in a report discussed by

Scouncil.

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pone. fee,

Mayor Ron Cullis said Central
Saanich could not afford to build
the connector road and suggested
that council consider less expen-

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ing, including doctors.

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dt efact is, our elected officials
seen carving medical budgets to the
t about everyone is hurt-

Sive options to the problem.

Ald. Gary Valiquette said it was
also too late to consider a new
truck route as an option in the
Official Community Plan and the
matter would have to be reviewed
after the plan becomes a bylaw.

Council voted to recommend
that the connector road be consid-
ered at a later date as part of the
local area planning process,

After wrestling with the issue,
council decided to ask the public
works staff to consider the feasa-
bility of designating East Saanich
Road and Veyaness Road as one-
way traffic roads for heavy vehi-

programs?

1988/89, one-fourth—$145 million—went
to things like roads, bridges and other

Everything, in other words, ut
the Medical Services Plan.

It’s an outrage to you because you

cles.

Ald. Arlene Box made the
motion that one road be consid-
ered as a “northbound only” route
and the other be designated a
“soutbound only” route for large
trucks. .

Council also voted to adopt the
committee’s recommendations
that police enforcement be contin-
ued along Veyaness Road.

In addition, council recom-
mended the engineering depart-
ment widen the east verge of
Veyaness Road between Stelly’s
Crossroad and East Saanich Road.

Visibly frustrated residents of

the missing money would have solved
our current fee dispute.

This questionable accounting
comes after a 61% mcrease in premium rev-
enue over the past three years— while health
care as a portion of government bud-

TheReview Wednesday, June 20,1990 — A21

Veyaness Road argued that the
narrowness of the road was a
dangerous hazard that needs to be
dealt with immediately.

David Woodward said the road
Was SO narrow that if two trucks
meet where there is pedestrian
activity, either one truck would
have to stop or there would be an
accident involving the trucks or
even the pedestrian. __

Another resident said it was
only a matter of time before some-
one was killed by a truck and the
resulting lawsuit would cost the
municipality a lot more than the
cost of building a connector road.

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oliticians from.cut

Woodward added that the prob-
lem of speeding traffic and wide
vehicles travelling down this nar-
row road would soon get worse if
there was development of 22 new
new businesses in the Butler
Brothers pit on Keating Crossroad.

Say you saw it
in the Review

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gets has been &

Did you know that of the $581
million in MSP premiums in B.C. in

paid those premiums in confidence.

It’s an outrage to doctors because ~

steadily declining.

All of which leads us to conclud
something we’ve suspected all along. Our
provincial government is more interested
in its own health than yours.

BRITISH COLUMBIA MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

Nothine’s more important than your health.

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