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_ 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. .

Fridays: 2 p.m., bingo;

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. .

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