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The Canadian Champion, Friday, September 13, 2002-g ,Town may get new street sigils By RICHARD VIVIAN The Champion Street signs in Milton may be getting a facelift. In conjunction with the Town's Gateway Study - which is cur- rently in the public consultation process - staff have recoin- rnended introducmng new street signs. No street naines would be changed, but the signs would be painted blue to match the Town logo. "The intent here is to corne up with a consistent approach to pro- vide signage that is both way-finding for ernergency vehicles and alto respect the history of the communities," said Jennifer Reynolds, Milton's director of cornrunity services. "This builds on the notion that Milton has its own branding. using consistent colours and font." Currently, street sign designs arent consistent throughout urban and rural areas of town. Milton's community services comrnittee approved the new street sign designs Monday, and the cost will bc considered during the 2003 budget discussions. The cornmittee-approved designs would sec signs painted blue with white lettering and possibly contain a symbolie logo. such as a poppy, for tome residential roadways. Collector roads would be pamnted the saine colours. but would alsu include bump-out' labels to include histotie cornmunity naines. Developers who choose to upgrade sign design with logos or 'bump-outs' before handing over ownersiip of roads to the Town would be required to contribute to a replacernent fund for future Town requirements. Upgraded signs cost approximately $130, as do larger regional road signs. Existing street signs and new local street signs without a logo cost approximately $45 and existing street signs with a logo cost about $70. If forrnally approved by tossn counicil. the sign replacement pro- gramn would be phased in over several years. Milton council hasn't formally adopted the new sign designs, but is expected to consider thc issue Scptcmber 2-3. 4 Adauge Town may spend $ 100,000 in effort to monitor sait use on local roads The Town is looking to spend $100,000 to monitor lise amount of road sait spread during winter montiss. A motion outining tise Town's intent 10 install computerized monitoring equipment in 10 of its winter mainte- nance trucks was appmoved by tise com- munity services commitlee Monday. "This will ailow us to have a base and shlow staff 10 use osher metisods of win- ter control 10 tee how we can Oimit our sait use," said Doug Thompton, manag- er of operations for tise Town. The pusis to monitor tise amount of tait used cornes from tise Region of Halton and Environinent Canada. The Region is looking for quantifiable data related to tise amount of sait spread on regional roads. Tise Town is responsi- ble for maintaining more titan 288 km of local regional roads. Currently, sait quantifies are estimated bascd on truck size and weigist. More tisan 642 km of town roads are also maintained. Environinent Canada is alsu seeking quantity data to use i lthe creation of best practices related to sait spreadmng, storage and disposai. Possible cost-sharing opportunities exisl witistise Region, as tome of tise trucks operated locally are owned by tise Region, added Mr. Tisompton. Installing tise monitors doesn't mean lest sait will be spread on area roads, stressed Mayor Gord Krantz. "If we were t0 redssce tise amount of sait and someone had a fender-bender, we'd be tise first ones they'd corne back on," he said. Milton council bas yet 10 formally address tise issue, but is expected bo con- sider the motion September 23. You may forget where the fuel goes. Along with improvements in diesel science that include quieter engines and more power, Volkswagen's advanced IDI engine con cover more thon 1,00 kilometres* of highwoy on o single tank of fuel. (Which, incidentolly, is occessed just by the right reor wheel arch.) 6 mts sAC FACTORY DIRECT I»RIUiiS BLINDS SHUTTERS ]DRAPERIES Vrtical & Vnetin .2' Woc/SfreIB5d I WINDOW FSIN *Repairs & Intallation 4t Fax Us Your Measurements (905) 336-1097 v , * uek4yu o 'biriida itq Georg etown Volkswagen 199 Guelph Street, 905-877-5285 Drivers wanted. Mon- Thurs 9:00 arn- 8:30 pm;, Fn 900 arn- 6:00 pm, Sot 9:00 amr- b.00 pmn -'d t4 i m, F,,ý w,,ýg, I., lh, Jetio TDI, Neý B-ii,ý TDý .,ýd G,,If TDI -th 5 speýd -1 2001 Lonsý,,pl-, C-dý P,.Aýced by Nwoml Ca,,,ýdo Estý,,.ted 1,,ghý.y ,4 q-,te, 1h,,ý 1,000 kdý &- kýd L', ý 54 9 'f, fýei fa- wP0,4 A'tuo: TDI MPG 50 64 City Highway L/1 00 km 5*7 4e4 City Highway meim