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PAGE 8. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1986, WHITBY FREE PRESS -ýTeen dance hall By MIKE JOHNSTON attract drugs into the Free Press Staff area. With two months left The license is valid for ln the town imposed two more months at probationary perlod for which time council will the Playground, a receive a report on the teenage dance hall, hall from the town's by- owner Bob Longmuir law officer. reports no problema and According to expects bis second six Longmuir, the by-law months to be even more officer came into the successful than bis first club every other night six. when it first opened in Whitby council agreed -- May but "I haven't seen to provide Longmuir hlmn around lately." with a public hall licen- Longmuir interprets se for a probationary the by-law officer's ab- pero of six months sence was a positive followlng complaints by. sign for the club. Durhams Regionai Indeed, a check with Police that the club may the town and the police NEW & SKATES SKATE BLADE REPAIRS DONE ON PREMISES C.C.M. BAUER LARGE SELECTION HOURS: Mon-FrI. 108, Sat. - Bay Sports -I. _ J_ Equlpmnt Ltd. 35., f-__ ic- 980 Drock Rd. S., Plckerlng ~~F department backs up Longmnuir's cdaims. Administrator Bull Wallace told the Free Press no complaints have been received by the town and Staff Sargeant Rosa Smith of 18 division ln Whltby said "we are monitoring it on a regular basis but there have been no major problema. " Whlle Longmuir waa giad- to bear the remarks from the town and the police- depar- tment, he la hesitant to make any improvemen-, ts at the Playground un- tii bis probationary period is over. "I'm ready to put two or three thousand dollars into the ligbting system and to upgrade the floor but I'm hesitating hecause of this probationary period, " said Longmuir. "I hope when this does come up at council they notice my good record and give me a dlean bll of health to work it my way for six months. " An average of 100 people attended each of the dani summer Longmu ta that fil 250 durin Thec teenager age fronr council whether club op Joe Bui concern 19-year-o since ti drinking runniLng smoothly- ices during the Longmulr said ln the pasa to re-enter if tbey He said between 9 r, said club's firat four months stepped outside. and 10:30 p.m. an off- ir, but he expec- he bas had no problems Longmuir sald this duty police officer, a igure to climb to in that area. caused problems in- stipulation of bis license ng the fal. He admitted the cluding two instances of he admita la expensive, club caters to summertime was slow teenagers trying to re- will let 10 or 20 people at rs ranging in for the hall and one of enter the hall witb rum a time out of the club in- n 14 to 19. When the problema be had in a can of coke. to the enclosure for was discussing was the congestion out- But Longmuir some air. or not to let the aide the club on the believes he has found a " If they leave tbe club pen, councillor sidewalk # where solution to the problem. after they pay they will gelli voiced a teenagers tended to He bas constructed a have to pay to get back about allowing gather. "'stockade" at the back in,"1 aid Longmuir. olds into tbe bail Admission to the club of the club complete He also said banda ýey are of legal la $5 and anyone en- with seats and patio Ian- will no longer be per- age. But tering would receive a terns.Se Pg. 14 Stu dy to address travel patterns The Transportation Tomorrow Survey, a comprehensive study of people'a travel habits undertaken by Durham and five other regions within the Metro Toron-, to commutersbed, should help transpor- tation planners address the changing expec- tations of Durham's commutera, said chairman Gary Herrema at a press con- ference last Wednesday. According to Herrema, too much at- tention bas been paid to serving Toronto bound commutera in a narrow corridor along the lakeshore and the time bas come to provide a northern alternative for travellera wbo want tc by-pass Metro al together. He said tor priority should be giveor to the proposed Higb- way .407. Widening Higbway 401, he added, la "no longer the an- swer." The regional chair- man believes the rapid population growth througbout Durbam la responsibie for the cbanging expectations of both drivera and people dependant on public transit and only a broadly based study such as the Transpor- tation Tomorrow Sur- vey can identify those expectations. "Tbere's no point get- ting more roada if we don't know wbere to put themn, commented Herrema. However, the survey will not- accurately reflect those expec- tations unlesa Durham housebolds are prepared to participate. "It's in tbe beat in- teresta of everyone who la contacted to answer the questions because the data is crucial to planning for eacb n lional base," said one survey officiai. A total of 75,000 ran- domly selected households in Durham, Halton, Hamilton- Wentwortb, Peel, York and Metropolitan Toronto, . approximately one in every 20 bousebolds in each community, wiIl be con- tacted by telephone and an aduit in each of those bousebolds will be asked to answer a series of questions about any trips made by membera of their family the previous day. Ail infor- mation will remain con- fidential, according to survey manager Toivo Rukbolm, and the inter- views will be about seven minutes in length. Households selected for the survey should receive a letter of ex- planation the week before receiving the cail. Cails wil be made weeknights between 5 and 9:45 p.m. and on Saturdays between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. Rukholm said the suirvey, whicb was to begin last night, ahould be concluded in Decem- ber and another aix months will be required to compile aummaries of the resulta. When it la completed, Rukholm said the resuits will provide a common area- wide database tbat can be ahared by the municipalities and the province for short and long-term transpor- tation planning. Also participating in the $800.000 study are the varlous regionai transit authorities, GO Transit and the Toronto Transit Commission. While the participating municipalities and tran- ait authorities will be expected to pick up the tab for the study, the Ministry of Transpor- tation and Com- munications will return 75 percent of tbe coat in subsidies. With the sub- sidy, tbe coat of the study to Durbam tax- payera will be $16,000. VANVDERMEER NURSERY LTD, AND GARDEN CENTRE PLANT NOWI LARGE SELECTION 0F FALL TREES PERENNIALS ...... FERTILIZER Ail Reasonobly Priced SPECIAL NE BULBS $5,.001UN STOCK î ~427-2525 BA N0HMAURERE Drive a Little UAYLY & SaveaLo