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Waterloo Chronicle (Waterloo, On1868), 2 Jul 2015, p. 6

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. s-ii‘AiiuitniCHlecu-niunda. ‘2.20|s " '* rustrations mount over on. _ . {A o o o f - confusmg construction s1gns f. " ' ‘ Bvassii Mun/iv frustration and confusion “That would be almost . - . - riflllhff-"hmnide 7 and. quite frankly. hurting impossible for us to do i," . 7 ' . ‘ some of the smaller busi- today." hesaid. i ’ M . i ‘ ‘ , , ‘ 2 en it comes to the nesses because people are GrandLinq, the consor- ; ’ . 1 1 ‘_ ‘ ‘ construction of feeling that they can't get to tium responsible for design- . 7‘ ’ ‘ light rail transit. them easily." Mayor Berry ing. building. financing. : 4 m ‘ 1? ‘ 4 ' ~ area councillorsare frustrat- Vrbanovic said. operating and maintaining : ”F1 ’ . 5» g , , > ‘ ' ed with road closures, The sign issue is some- the transit protect. estimates 1 all â€" 1 1h. . , i- detours and signage. thing the city has been ask- about 600.000 man hours of L E5 a (A ii{f‘ ' H‘ In a meeting of all city, ing the region about for work on the project will be i 25 r, I? a“: ._ g township and region coun- about two weeks. said Kitch‘ completed this year. Cur- : (i; If: " < . S; ‘ " i 5 , . . % cils. councillors expressed ener (bun. Sarah Marsh. renily about 200 people are ; 3: g .-.«I:» f (f; is - ' ‘ l“: their continued annoyance To help with the road clo» working on the ground. but I {g . .' ’ by this year's construction sure confusion. Schmidt said another 200 will be added I PE . - season. he's working with (irandLinq soon, Schmidt said. i 9; “it's killing us.“ said to have the messaging on But signage isn't the only i ' ' WaterlooCoun. Melissa Dur- signs changed and have problemaccordingtowater- ' ~ , . ; g tell of the prolonged closure (irandljnq tip the signs loo Mayor Dave laworsky, E , a h ‘ A V,” g A ,. . ' . of Caroline Street in Water- down when roads and cross who said drivers in Waterloo I h;â€" ""‘T'.:‘“'=“_“’““”Ti'"‘1mj‘“" - ‘ . g ‘ 7 ,. r . Ioo's uptown. “This has been streets are open, and to put are desensitized to road l Stanley Park Man i005 Ottasia S? :i i- m “you 5 . 9 d "A Ni 5 12 months of work when it them back up when they are closed signs and often try to l _ was supposed to be four closed. get through anyway and " ---â€"-â€"--â€"---â€"-â€"â€"-â€"--â€"~ it's just really frustrating.“ "lt may cause some frus- have to turn around. F 113!" . In a presentation by the tration; there may be some In response. Schmidt said ’ “ ' a,“ region's Commissioner of times when a resident has when high-traffic roads are i n f ' Transportation and Engi- driven through the day closed. road closed signs WI“ > I neering Services Thomas before there is no sign and it be moved up. giving drivers I Schmidt. he told councillors was open. and then the next lotsof notice, . E that Caroline Street should day the sign is up and us “I know we are definitely ’ u p OW n beopencd by September. actuallgj' closed ._ so that‘s impacting people and hllklv i - “We'll continue to work the tra e'off and hopefully nesses out there. and we are I DENTAL HYG'ENE wrth (irandLinq to get ll that works." he said. doing everything we can to 1 open as qurckly as we can I “lhe issue we have is that mitigate those impacts and : , Total BOdY care believe once they are at a we make one change to satis- htive them survive constnit â€" : piiwng stage we can look at i} one group and then you tiori and thrive afterwards," 1 includes your ORAL HEALTH possibly ottt‘rway traffit or end up making someone else Schmidt said.‘ i traffic by flag people," unhappi. but I think this [he regionslight rail tranâ€" I _ . ”an.” Clctltllng & sCilllllL' / Schmidt said. adding the tharigt-niakes scrise' sit proiect spans 19 kilomv ,\A - 7 ‘ ‘ work in that area has taken Marsh suggested ins between ("onestoga Mall K ‘ lllll ‘ Polishing dd flllnl'ldt‘ longerthan anticipated (.r;indl inq use signs that in Waterloo and l-airiieis Q . ‘ Down King Street in wam drivers of construction Park Mall in Kitchener hAm . Nlitllih gu‘lrd‘ ~ Kiti hem-r, iount illors and periods well in atli ant t“. lht‘ regions adapted hits . Dental logicnc with _ no tlcntlsl “n shill ’ the mayor are more (on indicating a date the road rapid transit route. whit h ' ' ‘ term-d about signage. which Will he dosed But due to the will run front l‘airsiew l'ark ° Spit Dent whitening & homo whitening trays indicates strt‘t‘ls are closed lltiid nature of the construiâ€" “all to (unihrtdge's Ainslie , when. in fact. they aren‘t lion schedule. \(hllt|(ll said Street lernitnatl is set to open ' " lhat's t dosing .i lot of that wasn‘t an option this September Catholic teachers positioned for strike a ' Br le4 Rtmriou appointed inedi.itor l ould his the ldhoiir llllltl\ll'\ f We re there for all vaur transportation needs! 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