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- ---- ------ Durham MP Ross Steven- son says a series of meeting ear- ly this week with federal trans- port minister Benoit Bouchard may be the last chance to influ- Volume 123 Number 35 ence the pending decision on the future of VIA Rails regional lines, including the Toronto/ Havelock route. Mr. Stevenson, along with other MPs from Ontario was to meet last night with the minis- ter, and again as part of the Na- tional Conservative Caucus to- day (July 26) The Government is expect- ed to make its decisions on VIA's future public some time before September, and possibly as early as mid-August. Last chance for VIA? As reported in the Port Perry Star last week, members of the Toronto/Havelock Line Passengers Association are less than optimistic about the fu- ture of this line. In fact, they say the line, along with other Regional routes will be shut down in ear- ly January. Mr. Stevenson said last week he has no official informa- tion and has not seen the report submitted by VIA to the Trans- port Minister, but he acknowl- edged he has heard the same ru- mours in Ottawa about the January closures. As for the meetings early this week, he said he hopes to find out what the report says, and if there is any room for lee- way to try to influence the deci- sion that will be eventually be made by Cabinet. ; But he wasn't overly opti- Ty hunch is that th unch is that the gov- ernment will not dabble very much with the report (submit- ted by VIA) he told the Star. And he said that Ontario Conservative MPs don't get a lot of support from the col- leagues from other parts of the country when they argue about keeping passenger service go- M8 (Turn to page 4) Condos get start this fall Construction on the mas- sive condominium-shopping mall project on Highway 7A in Port Perry could start this fall, developer Hans Moehring told the Star last week. Mr. Moehring said that while all the major develop- ment agreements have been settled, there are still several loose ends to bring together be- fore works starts on what will be the largest single develop- ment project in Scugog Town- ship. He said the tentative date to get underway on the 90 luxu- ry condominiums and indoor market mall is this fall, with the target date for completion set forlate 1990 and early 1991. The multi-million project calls for 90 condo units in two distinctively designed buildings set along the shore of Lake Scu- gog behind the present site of the Conway Restaurant. The indoor covered market with two levels and an outdoor bell tower is to be built on the land where Conway, the former Bayshore Takeout and the car wash now sit. The project has been four years in the planning stages, and the costs have already pushed over $3 million. While the final price tag on this project is not' known, it is certainly going to be higher (Turn to page 5) Lakeside en Se ab bg WN