" $ 5 6 " - * 5 4 r / & 8 4 SAFETY DEMAND FOR NEW TRAFFIC LIGHTS AT HIGHWAY 417
GREGG CHAMBERLAIN gregg.chamberlain@eap.on.ca
Improved traffic safety is the main rea- son for new sets of signal lights going up at two of the on-ramp locations to Highway 417 in Prescott-Russell. “To enhance traffic safety,” stated Brontë 8BMLFS.PPSFT 0OUBSJP5SBOTQPSUBUJPONFEJB liaison, in an email response to a query about the reason for new traffic light setups at the POBOEPGGSBNQJOUFSTFDUJPOTGPS)JHIXBZ 417, in Champlain and Russell townships. The one traffic light installation, at the 3PDLEBMF3PBEJOUFSTFDUJPOOFBSUIFCPVO dary of Russell Township with the Village of Vars, has been an ongoing project for the past year. It has undergone one refit because the traffic light poles were set up in the wrong location the first time. Plans to relocate the poles to their correct site are delayed because the wet spring weather, this year, IBTDSFBUFEBIJHIXBUFSUBCMF BOEUIF contractor has to wait for the groundwater level to drop before putting in the concrete footings this summer for the poles. In Champlain Township, outside of the 7JMMBHFPG7BOLMFFL)JMM JOTUBMMBUJPODPOUJOVFT on a new traffic light setup for the intersec UJPOPG)JHIXBZXJUI)JHIXBZ" ministry transportation environmental study report in December 2016 recommended the new traffic lights at that location.
De nouveaux feux de circulation seront installés aux intersections locales de l’autoroute 417 dans les municipalités de Champlain et Russell. Les deux projets sont le résultat des recommandations d’un examen de sécurité contenues dans un récent rapport d’étude environnementale sur les transports en Ontario. -photo Gregg Chamberlain
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