Nov. 12 public meeting planned on hospital access road
Posted By BRENDAN WEDLEY/Examiner Municipal Writer
Updated 3 months ago
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Hospital access road design public meeting
When: Nov. 12, 4 to 7 p.m.
Where: Kinsmen Club Room, Kinsmen Civic Centre, 1 Kinsmen Way, off Sherbrooke St.
“Really nothing much has changed.... If the public has specific comments, there is an opportunity for them to submit comments. Come out, take a look at the drawings.”
city design and construction manager Blair Nelson
A preliminary design of the planned new hospital access road and a traffic analysis will be presented at a public meeting at the Kinsmen Civic Centre on Nov. 12, a city official says.
The design will show the length and location of turning lanes, the placement of curbs and where the lanes will be built, city design and construction manager Blair Nelson said yesterday.
"Really nothing much has changed" since city council approved the plan in April 2007, he said. "If the public has specific comments, there is an opportunity for them to submit comments.
"Come out, take a look at the drawings."
Council approved construction of the $6.55-million road in the 2009 budget. It would be a two-lane road, with one lane for each direction, with a 50 km/h speed limit.
The road would branch off the west side of Clonsilla Ave. between Maryland and 3rd avenues. From its south end, the road would swing north, pass the Kinsmen Civic Centre, cross Sherbrooke St. and continue north on the west side of the Foodland grocery store.
The road would pass west of St. Peter's Secondary School before connecting with Parkhill Rd.
It would be the first phase of a multi-year, $8.5-million project that would include various road network improvements in the area around the Peterborough Regional Health Centre.
Construction of the road could start in the summer next year, Nelson said.
"We're doubtful that it will be all completed in one construction season," he said.
The design isn't available for the public at this time because city officials and the city-hired consultants for the project, D.M. Wills Associates Ltd., may make some changes to the document, Nelson said.
Council approved a $448,890 contract with D.M. Wills Associates for the detailed design and contract tendering documents for the road in February.
The provincial government approved the environmental assessment for the project in June last year.
bwedley@peterboroughexaminer.com
