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One-way drives away business : dépanneur RICHARD MAHONEY richard.mahoney@eap.on.ca
in this m atter.” The decision to prevent westbound traffic on the section was m eant to i m - prove safet y for seniors living at the Ma- noir McGill Manor, at Régent and McGill Streets. Aktar, who has received the sup- port of neighbours, suggests alternatives to the current arrange m ent. “We would propose that vehicles be restricted fro m m aking a left turn fro m westbound Re- gent Street onto southbound McGill Street. This would prevent vehicles fro m having to advance into the onco m ing northbound McGill Street traffic to see due to the obstructed corner. Another proposal would be the conversion of Re- gent Street along its entiret y between McGill Street and Ha m ilton Street into an eastbound one-wa y street.” At press ti m e, Ma y or René Berthiau m e said he had not y et received a cop y of the letter.
HAWKESBURY | While the move was made for safety reasons, the conversion of a section of Régent Street, Hawkes- bury into a one-way street is driving away business. That is the argu m ent McGill Street Dépanneur À Tout Prix owner Nasrin Aktar is m aking in an effort to convince the m u- nicipalit y to reconfigure the intersection. The town recentl y turned a section of Régent between McGill and Stanle y Streets into a one-wa y eastbound street. “This change to the traffic flow will de definitel y detri m ental to our business as this will prevent traffic accessing our busi- ness directl y fro m Regent Street,” Aktar writes in a letter to the town. “There has not been an y for m of public consultation
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The conversion of a section of Régent Street, Hawkesbury into a one-way street has led to complaints.
Champlain weighs merits of garbage limits
two bags to throw out ever y week what do the y do with the excess?” One solution would be for the township to purchase clear bio-de- gradable bags with the township logo printed on it. “We could sell these bags at different loca- tions throughout the township and since we would be charging for each bag of garbage, whoever would like to put out extra garbage bags at the curb would have to pa y for it. Additionall y , if the township would like to encourage rec y cling and m ake sure that no hazardous waste is sent to the land- fill, we could advise residents that if our collector sees rec y cling or hazardous waste in the garbage bag he will not pick it up,” writes Thériault. The CAO observes, “If people rec y cled the wa y we ask the m to rec y cle, m ost house- holds would have one bag of garbage to put at the curb each week. You will even have so m e households that will rec y cle m uch m ore because of the bag tag incen- tive and which will put onl y one bag per two weeks at the curb.” If the bag fee was set at $2, a household would save m one y if it produced one bag a week. Thériault relates: “In 2012 we col- lected $597,080 in garbage collection fees,
which represents approxi m atel y 4,265 units. If all of our units were to put out just one bag of garbage, we would collect $443,560 in bag tags, which would reduce our revenues b y $153,520 per y ear, but we would save approxi m atel y $44,500 in tip- ping fees for a net reduction of $109,000 per y ear. Since there are alwa y s so m e dwelling units which put out m ore than one gar- bage bag per week, I would not think that
a reduction of this m agnitude would hap- pen, but we m a y see a reduction in the fees we collect and in the tipping fees we pa y . The a m ount of the deficit is hard to quan- tif y until we tr y this for m ula.” To avoid a shortfall, council could opt for a charge of $2.70 per bag, which, if ever y residence used one bag a week, would cost a household $140 per y ear and the town- ship would collect $598,806 in revenues per y ear.
PLEASANT CORNER | Champlain Town- ship is considering placing limits on the quantity and nature of domestic garbage the municipality will collect. The township is pondering a proposal to a m end the charge for disposal and collec- tion of refuse fro m a flat $144 per unit to a “bag tag” s y ste m . At the sa m e ti m e, the township ponders a possible edict that would direct its garbage collection con- tractor “not to pick up an y garbage which has rec y cling or hazardous m aterials in it.” As chief ad m inistrator Jean Thériault writes in a report to council, “The Township has been tr y ing to find a solution to the nu m ber of bags our residents put out at the curb, increasing the a m ount of rec y cling our residents do and getting our residents to use bio-degradable bags.” The current b y -law sa y s that each resi- dence can put up to two garbage bags at the curb each week. “The proble m we en- counter is that m an y residents put m ore than two bags at the curb and we collect the m . We could tell our contractor to stop collecting when there are m ore than two bags, but if the residence has m ore than
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Few Prescott-Russell municipalities imopse restrictions on the quantity of trash that will be collected.
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