{"id":2377,"date":"2012-08-22T15:12:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T15:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rf.podcastfixit.com\/index.php\/2012\/08\/22\/beaconsfield-votes-to-impose-highway-20\/"},"modified":"2015-06-01T19:42:03","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T19:42:03","slug":"beaconsfield-votes-to-impose-highway-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/index.php\/2012\/08\/22\/beaconsfield-votes-to-impose-highway-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Beaconsfield votes to impose Highway 20 and intercity train speed limits"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\u201cWill increase commute time by 43%\u201d<\/h3>\n
\nBy Robert Frank<\/b><\/div>\n
\nwww.thesuburban.com<\/a><\/div>\n
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\nBeaconsfield council passed a resolution at its council meeting, Aug. 20, aimed at limiting the speed of cars driving along Highway 20 and rail traffic\u2014including VIA Rail intercity trains\u2014to 70 km\/h. The city is also calling for photo radar to be installed to enforce the new limit.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis will affect residents of other communities and lengthen travel time by 43 percent,\u201d Beaconsfield resident Greg Stienstra warned councillors. \u201cIt will cost transportation time, it will cost personal time, it will cost professional time and it will increase traffic congestion and pollution during rush hour.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Beaconsfield Citizens\u2019 Association<\/a> president leapt to the microphone when council voted on the resolution, explaining that trucks will use their engine brakes when they slow down upon entering Beaconsfield, severely worsening the road noise problem that the measure is intended to solve.<\/p>\n

Mayor David Pollock retorted that he is \u201clooking forward to Highway 30 being completed so that trucks will be diverted around Montreal.\u201d<\/p>\n

District 6 councillor Rhonda Massad stressed that the measure is intended to end the suffering that Beaconsfield residents have endured from traffic noise.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese people have a medical problem,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n

Massad added that Beaconsfield still plans to move forward with the erection of a sound barrier along Highway 20, in addition to its speed limit initiative. The city has no similar plans to help citizens who live adjacent to the rail right of way in north Beaconsfield.
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\n\u201cOttawa and Quebec will never approve\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

Town manager Patrice Boileau added that the Canadian Pacific and Canadian National transcontinental rail lines which run through Beaconsfield are of the highest calibre in the country. He said that this enables intercity passenger trains to travel at up to 160 km\/h and freight trains 100 km\/h.<\/p>\n

\u201cTransport Quebec will never approve Beaconsfield\u2019s request to reduce speed limits on Highway 20,\u201d Stienstra asserted in an interview following the city council meeting, \u201cand railways are a federal responsibility.\u201d<\/p>\n

Beaconsfield also approved a $1.1 million measure to reline about 10 per cent of its fresh water lines, \u201cmostly in the southeast sector,\u201d Boileau told residents.<\/p>\n

The city also voted to pay $102,759 for a contractor to inspect its water infrastructure, after a previous contractor allegedly failed to perform these services.<\/p>\n

For Beaconsfielders Carl Mercier and Tammy Zuckerman the repairs can\u2019t come soon enough.<\/p>\n

Frustrated after being told that the problem originated in their house, Mercier said that he arranged for independent water testing after learning from neighbours that the city had also told them that they were the only ones with a problem.<\/p>\n

\u201cBesides finding double the maximum safe iron level in our water, they discovered very high levels of manganese\u201450 per cent higher than the safe maximum. We didn\u2019t know what manganese was, so we read up on it and learned that it can cause intellectual impairment in children. In addition, the laboratory said that the turbidity of the water was ten times the acceptable limit.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI was pregnant and drinking the water when this first happened,\u201d Zuckerman added. She said that the city is not supplying bottled water and that she fears that giving her now three-month old infant a bath might harm the child.<\/p>\n

Beaconsfield also passed a resolution in favour of limiting wood burning during smog periods. District 2 councillor Karin Essen opposed the measure, saying that according to the information available to her, the city plans to turn the resolution into a bylaw in 2013.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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