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c economist sun x st6iiffville fa a a feel like youre putting your life on the line to get a bag of milk doybu increase your deductible every time you need to pick up your dry cleaning share your tales of shopping terror by letting us know where youve encountered the worlds worst parking lot you can fax us at 905 2941538 or email us at newsroomecpnsuncom in this first instalment reporter roy green risks life and limb during a visit to the parking lot of the white rose plaza in newmarket by roy green staff writer thereare no yield or rightofway signs in the plaza at yonge street and mulock drive in newmarket the lines marking the parking spots have all faded and worse so has the stop sign leading on to mulock instead of red it is a sad yellow and you have to be right next to itto read the word stop at the narrow yonge en- trance one encounters traffic headed north south east and west in an area barely 20 feet by 20 feet i ill bet ie seen five acci dents in a year says vicki sutton an employee at mail boxes etc in the plaza at yonge street youve got people coming noftfrfrom the weston plaza meeting cars trying to enter and exit someones goingto get i killed while we talk a car enters the t- intersectiori from mulock- and imme- y diately crosses into the left lane to j facilitate a j lefthand turn fore- ing another driver try- ing td exit the plaza tohit the s brakes there are no lanes says sutton- w no yield or merge signs or rightofways my cus tomers are always complaining its crazy its a busy plaza most peo ple know itas the white rose plaza after its main tenant containing such hightraffic attractions as the beer store swiss chalet a cibc branch coffee time donuts great i canadian bagel a variety store dry cleaner a popular chinese restaurant and of course white rose its most daunting feature is tketwo rows of parking spaces taking up the middled the a v x f v staff photorob alary t i above near collisions and parking chaos make up a normal day in the white rose plaza parking lot at yonge and mulock in newmarket left this stop sign in the same plaza has faded and become nearly unreadable 1 ss vwy v ft 4 hit entire tthw length i of the f plaza if you enter from mulock heading for the beer store for j instance youre inclined to right into the clos- est space r even though it means crossing two lines of eastwest traffic travefsingthe plaza if you want to parkright in front of the beer store ybuhayeto cross anbther two r lanes of eastrwest traffic there are often too many cars going in too many different directions i find it really bad says newmarkets pam murray as she enters the bagel store there are no lines and elaine luck exiting the dry cleaner agrees i was- almost hit trying to back out fits especially bad at night because there are no lights and youcant see v but no one it seems has- launched any official com- plaints under the site plan agree- ment we impose a number of i obligations on the ownersuch as marking parking spaces making sure theyare clearly delineated statessue l plamondon the town of newmarkets director of legal services if it reached a level below acceptable there are some opportunities to have it corrected but im not aware of any complaints plamondon said the town has tried to improve plaza park- ing lots on at least one occa sion when an application was made to add montanas restaurant to the parking lot on yonge street where chaptersis located weencouraged the landowner to change the layout in a way tomake it easier for- access tojheplaza immediately to the north at yonge anddavis drive i- newmarket mayor tom taylor says he has not heard any complaints about the white rose plazasometimes the problem we bump into is with change in usage when a plaza is established the layout and the v traffic flows are approved by council the tenants might change to a store generating higher traffic volumes then youre stuck with perhaps the original layout not being able to handlethe new volumes supt george kydd of york regional police is also unaware of any problems in the plaza because it is private property we wouldnt even become aware of it he says its not uncom mon for a lot of these not to be reported to usit would have to be fairly seriousdamage other- wisewewould encourage the- participants to exchange infor- mation and carry on their wayi 1 the owners of the plaza were i unavailable for comment