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p4 weekender january 18 1986 weekender ommen wmammmm hwy 407 needed transportation planning in the southern part of york region is complicated by a number of fac tors two main realities dominate first of all there is spectacular growth taking place between steeles ave and major mackenzie dr from the woodbridge area on the west over to markhams 9th line on the east new homes and businesses in this corridor are generating more and more traffic much of it moving in an eastwest direction and the only through eastwest road available is an overloaded hwy 7 secondly the provincial govern ments decision to delay construc tion of hwy 407 is creating serious traffic problems delays in hwy 407 and spectacular growth will com bine to cause severe traffic conges tion in the next few years in facing the reality of growth in this area and the trafficclogged condition of hwy 401 the govern ment of ontario has no choice but to give hwy 407 the goahead construction of the new super highway south of the current hwy 7 makes eminent sense it would re lieve traffic congestion on steeles ave 14th ave and hwy 7 and even hwy 401 and it would facilitate growth in markham vaughan and richmond hill hwy 7 is definitely a highway whose time has come editors mailba jfxil puttuf si ratepayers head presents facts dear sir the markham heritage area ratepayers associaton feels it is time to present some facts con cerning bullock dr the associa tion has been involved with this matter since the early 1970s as a result we feel we can present some perspective on this subject contrary to quotations in the economist and sun of dec 26 1985 and jan 8 1986 bullock drive extension to main street has never been part of the official town plan one of our major concerns that arose in the mid 1970s with the growth of the subdivisions east of main street to the 9th line was the increasing amount of traffic that would occur on parkway ave our concern has been justified by every consultant commis sioned by the townto study bul lock dr these consultants in clude mm dillon rv ander son and marshall macklin monaghan to name a few we are currently aware of the massive problem of trucks on main street today bullock dr rather than relieving the situa tion will greatly aggravate it as explained in the report of the con sulting engineers in the early 80s accordingto the dillon report the latest on bullock dr the cost to the town and therefore the taxpayer would be a mini mum 13 million in 1984 dollars in 1986 dollars it is obviously much higher from the associations pers pective the opening of bullock dr not only would not alleviate the volume of traffic on raymerville dr but instead would put more traffic into the raymerville com munity as well as aggravate the existing parkway and main st problems at a great expense to all the taxpayers the only known way to reduce traffic is to close a road not to open one on your jan 8 1986 front page story it was stated that 400 houses face raymerville dr also that industrial lands would be opened and businesses improved on bul lock dr we take excepton to these statements on raymerville dr in the southern section mccowan to snider the number of residences is actually 148 with an additional 20 sideyards for a total of 168 not 400 residences as reported there are an additional 11 houses under construction and on snider dr there are 41 residences and one sideyard for a total of 42 so the total for both raymerville and snider is 210 residences there are very few vacant lots to be developed further we are not a ware of any industrial land to be developed as a result of bullock dr extension unless it is east of 9th line and bullock dr businesses would not benefit since the present zoning normally precludes retail sales your editorial in the jan 8 editorial states we cannot be lieve that a great deal of outside traffic is attracted to the raymer- villesnider route this is direct- ly opposite to the correspondence from mr pazic and mr casha who claim the need for bullock drive is to relieve eastwest traf fic on raymerville drive caused by vehicles other than those from the raymerville subdivision we agree with you mr editor with the present incomplete road system within the raymer ville community we must expect a far greater volume of traffic on the completed portions until such time as the road system is com pleted the planned 2700 resi dences of raymerville will create an automotive population of approximately 6000 based on markham statistics quoted in the weekender of january 4 1986 article entitled extra parking standing empty we hope this clarifies the matter roy mcculiough president markham heritage area ratepayers association drop us a line if you have a beef or want to pat someone on the back sit down and write a letter to the weekender deadline is noon thursday prior to publication names may be withheld on request at the discretion of the editor under no cir cumstances will anonymous letters be published the address is 9 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