The Editor,
There seems to be plenty of Cornwall folk who are scratching their heads as to why, city municipal types, see the need to vast changes along Brookdale Ave. Folks can see plans at City of Cornwall web site.
When the traffic circle was put in place, it was in order to handle traffic volume and placement of the bridge. The bridge is gone but the issue of traffic volume is all the more valid these days. Per the plans laid out for new changes, the conceived round-about is one third the size of the current traffic circle.
Of that area, the plan is for more green space and a pedestrian crosswalk in an area of 500 metres from 9th Street to a new layout for 7th Street to be more to the south. That green space will draw more geese, on the roadway, that now regularly snarls traffic in summer and provide area for homeless encampments. So in 500 metres of Brookdale roadway from 9th Street, there will be congestion of traffic due to a small roundabout, more pedestrian presence on a very busy roadway and geese in the mix giving drivers the gears.
City municipal types seem to think provincial funding is sweet but don’t seem to have a day-to-day sense of any taxpayer cost increases due to these plans nor the inconvenience to drivers and businesses along route that will falter due to construction problems and timeline.
The plan would be fine if it was an improvement but it is not and is more a municipal boondoggle to acquire provincial funding.
Tom Harpur, Cornwall
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