Dean Psarras has posted a photo of a letter to North Leaside residents from Councillor Burnside about the cul-de-sac traffic calming proposal for Glenvale Blvd, Broadway Ave. and Craig Crescent. The ultimate result, if the scheme leaps all the hurdles, is to shut off traffic on those streets into (and out of) Leaside at Bayview Ave. The meeting is set for Wednesday April 18 at 7:30 p.m. at Leaside Memorial Gardens. The is the work of the North Leaside Traffic Committee, an unofficial body appointed by the Councillor. The plan would not happen quickly and there are many requirements. An informal survey of some 750 people in the area found 69 percent supported the idea.
LRT WORK A ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME MISFORTUNE
This was to be followed by a formal poll of perhaps 3,000 residents in which at least half will be required to participate in the vote for it to be valid. Of these, 60 percent would have to agree to the closures. Further hurdles await at Community Council and with caveats about traffic obstruction which such closures might cause elsewhere. The pilot, if approved, would last nine to 12 months, Mr. Burnside told a town hall in February. The concept is seen by many non-Leaside residents to the west as quite radical. Mr. Psarras’s post on Leaside Community elicited a few posts worrying about the diversion of traffic to the south. The discussion of this plan is occurring in the middle of the LRT convulsion, a once-in-a-lifetime misfortune, that has created what can fairly be called a nightmare of traffic issues for all of Midtown.
