News

Wednesday, February 13,1991 — A15

Highway deficiencies identified

The Pat Bay Highway between
Swartz Bay and McKenzie Avenue
lacks continuity, a retired highway
planner told municipal officials
Sunday.

Bill Zonnenberg told over 20
elected officials and special inter-
est group representatives from four
municipalities who toured the
highway in a bus that many high-
way accidents could have been
avoided if the highway was
designed by engineers following
proper highway design rules.

Travelling southbound from
Swartz Bay, Zonnenberg pointed
out dangerous rock faces in a
motorist’s “Tecovery zone,” a nar-
row shoulder on a motorist’s driv-
ers side, areas of reduced vertical
and horizontal visibility, danger-
Ous intersections on curves, and a
proliferation of signs that can be
confusing to motorists.

“Curbs are all right on urban
Streets but not on freeways,” he
said. “The slope on the right is too
Steep for a safe recovery.”

Zomnenberg avoided comment
on areas that are to be upgraded by
the Ministry of Highways in the
near future but concentrated on
changes the highway goes through
as it passes through four munici-
palities.

The centre median’s concrete
barrier, called a Jersey barrier,
changes in height at various loca-
tions. Deceleration lanes for traffic
leaving the highway are too short
in most instances, as are accelera-
tion lanes for traffic entering the
highway, he said.

Light standards, sign posts and
Supports for overhead pedestrian
crossings are too close to the side
of the highway, he said.

The passenger side’s shoulder
changes in width at various stages,
and at one location, a concrete
barrier is on the shoulder.

“As I look at the highway, it’s
not just one class, it’s four or five
classes,” Zonnenberg said. “The
problem on the Pat Bay Highway
is no continuity.

“I am sure the highway’s
department is aware of these defic-
iencies and my assumption is that

they will be taken care of in the
upgrading,” Zonnenberg said.
The tour, organized by Sidney
Mayor Marie Rosko, was designed
to inform Peninsula politicians
about highway deficiencies. Many
questions were referred to Ministry
of Transportation staff, who also
accompanied the tour. The bus was

chartered by the Town at a cost of

about $230.

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