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WIIITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12,1l985, PAGE 7 To 60 km/h.... Council reduces Anderson speed limit Whitby Town Couricil has yielded to the requests of area residents and reduced the speed limit on An- derson St. between Taunton Rd. and Win- chester Rd. from 80 kilometres per hour to 60 kilometres per hour. Council reduced the speed limit despite public works director Dick Kuwahara's belief that the reduction wasn't necessary. - At last week's meeting of council's operation committee, Bill Whittick of 4250 An- derson St. N. said that the 80 km/h speed limit was just too fast. "We feel that 80 km/h is far too fast for that road - too many ac- cidents have taken place," he said. However, in his report Kuwahara noted that only 10 accidents were reported to the Durham The following are the results of last week's play at the Ajax Bridge Club as reported by Dwight Oland. In the open section (average156): North and South: Bill and Edna Baker, 187; Franklin Wu and Peter Mott, 179; Lloyd Peen and John Miller, 176.5; Russ and Doris Lee, 161; and, Jim Martell and Dwight Oland, 158.5. East and West: John McLean and Don Titherington, 196.5; Grant Andrews and Jack Findley, 192; Allan Doucette and Jim Colvin, 174; Donalda Crawford and Irene Pinkerton, 172; Mike Fernley and Bruce Choral winiers KITCHENER, Ont. - The Whitby Seniors' Jubilee Choir won second place in the Unison Choir Com- petition during the sixth annual Senior Citizens' Choir Festival held here last Wednesday. The Jubilee Choir won the award under the direction of Ina Wood- man. The choral group's pianist is Myra White. This competition was part of the 1985 Ontario Senior Games events. Ambulance service calls During the week that ended at midnight last Thursday, the Whitby Ambulance service responded to 147 calls for service. The service respon- ded to 57 calls of a routine nature and to 40 standby calls for other ambulance services in Oshawa and Ajax. They also responded to 50 emergency calls, including 12 motor vehicle accidents. The number to call for ambulance service in the Town of Whitby is 723-5232. Regional Police bet- ween 1980 and 1985. Five of these were single car accidents and in seven of the incidents the driver was charged with offenses ranging from making an im- proper left hand turn to careless driving to im- paired driving. Whittick told the committee that far more accidents occur on Anderson than are reported. "Many accidents are not reported," he said adding that between Taunton Rd. and Win- chester Rd. there are 29 houses on Anderson St. which are home to about 116 people. Many of these people walk along the street or go hor- seback riding. Speeding motorists, therefore, present a danger to them. Whittick also told council that speed signs posted on Anderson St. are not consistent. The northbound lane, near Taunton Rd., has a sign calling for a 60 km/h limit while the southbound lane near Winchester Rd. has one saying 80 km/h. And between those locations, there are no other signs. Kuwahara told coun- cil in his report that a speed survey was con- ducted on Anderson St. July 13, 1984 as well as April 25 and 26,1985. On July 13, 49 vehicles were surveyed, he said, that the average recor- ded speed was 85.9 km/h Only one car was recor- ded travelling faster than 100 km/h. On April 25, 338 vehicles were surveyed and the average recor- ded speed was 83.6 km/h. Only eight cars were recorded travelling faster than 100 km/h. On April 26, the average recorded speed was 83.4 km/h and only four vehicles were recorded travelling faster than 100 km/h. "Both days gave fairly consistent results and indicate that the 80 km/h speed zone is well suited to this area," Kuwahara said in his report. The director also Norman, 164; and, Jay Dynes and Elma Nor- man, 154. In the novice section: William Magee and Susan Cheetham, 75; and, Maureen Tarpey and Sigrid Davey, 71. East and West: Bar- bara Beamish and Lin- da Burnett, 78.5; and, Les and Jean Johnson, 71. The results of each week's play at the club will be reported in the following issue of the Whitby Free Press. noted that the 10 repor- ted accidents "had little to do with excessive speed. In the cases that it did play a part, the drivers were either charged with careless driving or impaired. "With this in mind, a reduction in the speed limit would only be ignored by these drivers and would have little ef- fect on controlling their actions," he added. Coun. Joe Bugelli, chairman of the operations committee, told Whittick that reducing the limit won't solve all the problerns. "It doesn't matter what you post the signs at, there is still going to be speeding," he said. Coun. Joe Drumm noted that, more often than not people stopped by police for speeding are not far from home. "Normaily, they seem to catch the people who live in the general area," he said adding, "'No matter what you post them through at, someone is still going to break the rules." He added that the only real solution to the residents' problems is enforcement of the speeding regulations. "What we have to do is put police there on a regular basis," Drumm said. However, council agreed to the residents' request and reduced the speed limit to 60 km/h. E DOWT OFFER ,FATHER'SL DAY • BANKRUPTCY SALES SALE OR • LIQUIDATION SALES JUST HONEST EVERYDAY LOW PRICES Ajax bridge resuits