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40000 vol 6n019 a metroland community newspaper friday may 11 1990 j 64 pages 25 cents oneway granted for blake street tracy kibble staff reporter blake street in stouffville will become a temporary oneway route running north banning motorists from using the street as a main street bypass town officials decid- ed tuesday more than 10 blake street resi dents who waited out a 212 hour meeting to hear the decision applauded council after the vote but it may only be for the time being council decided to consider other alternatives if the oneway route poses any problems resident spokesman rita thomas who wrote to council last october was not happy with councils previ ous solution to have the road widened the road runs parallel to the cnr tracks south of main street in stouffville widening blake street would be a disaster making it oneway is the only way to go mrs thomas told local officials tuesday many of our houses are two to four feet from the road and it is not made to accommodate the excessive traffic she added i can sit on my front yard and tap cars as they go by but mayor fran sainsbuiy the only member of council to vote against the residents request said making the street a oneway would ronrobb time for changes set a precedent for similar requests we dont have any oneways in stouffville once we do one well have many moire requests id like to see the street betterlit widened and fenced council could build side walks to make it safe but a oneway is confusing signage is wonderful but some people dont pay attention strangers wont know the mayor said mayor sainsbury and public works director paul whitehouse also stressed a oneway could cause problems for snow plowing and would direct traffic onto lloyd street but mrs thomas said the move would not cause more traffic on lloyd street she said blake street is enticing to motorists because they can bypass main street but lloyd would not be used for the same purpose if people could not use blake street they will be forced to travel up main street to their direct turn- ing point mrs thomas insisted no other side street has nearly the traffic we have and on the week ends its especially dangerous hun dreds of cars whiz by our houses mrs thomas said the oneway would make it ille gal for motorists to sidestep main street going south but vehicles from burkholder rose and lloyd streets could still travel north onto main ward 6 councillor jim sanders who represents the residents said it would not be precedentsetting because blake is completely differ ent than any other street in whitchurchstouffville it acts as a collector road to the south end of town the cost of widening the road would me much more costly councillor sanders said and residents applauded ward 2 councillor ron robb when he said this is done all the time in metro toronto adding we should not be afraid to make changes ward 5 councillor doug alles said council could deal with similar future requests one at a time and agreed with councillor robb that council should not be afraid to make the street a oneway route w inside comment page 4 lersj entertainment pages 8 to 10 real estatepages 19 to 38 sportspages50to52 classified ipages 56 to 63 see our women in business x section in todays week- r looking for a friend so is toby je 53 for more o pag 1 i wbmm rv hi mm long jump launch photosjoehd wjtteveen stouffville district secondary school track and field athlete reaquel beecher takes flight dur ing the senior girls long jump competition wednesday at the york region high school championships the event was held at york university in toronto and featured competitors from schools across york region the champi onships ran wednesday and thursday a report on the results of the sdss effort at the competition will be carried next wednesday bumpy rail crossing targeted for repair lovable pooch something has to be done to prevent the main street railway tracks from heaving every year said ward 4 councillor wayne emmerson at a recent council in committee meeting he asked public works director paul whitehouse if it is possible to get some subsidy to keep the tracks from rising every year councillor emmerson said he is plagued with com plaints regarding the bumpy railway crossing just south of the stouffville go station and requested a repair job be done mr whitehouse told council there is some subsidy available and assured local officials his department is working on a report to get the tracks fixed under the yearly connectinglink funding from the province a report on local roads is expected later this year