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ENTRANCE TO CIH ARENA DEEMED DANGEROUS
ALEXIA MARSILLO alexia.marsillo@eap.on.ca
to table this issue until 2019. Meanwhile, most councillors agree that the entrance should be closed temporarily with signage and cement barricades. This would also allow the City to test the acces- sibility and reception of the new entrance before permanently closing the County Road 17 entrance. According to City staff, there have been multiple car accidents at the intersection of County Road 17 and the entrance to the arena since its construction in 2010-11. At the time, after a traffic study was done, City staff recommended to council that Industrielle Street be themain entrance to the arena and that there should be no access constructed off County Road 17 for safety risks. It was also recommended that, if a County Road 17 entrance were constructed, it should only be done if an eastbound left turning lane and a westbound right turning lane are constructed as well. Council, however, approved the construction of an entrance to the arena fromCounty Road 17, without the addition of the left and right turning lanes. “This was to savemoney,” saidDesjardins. “We were looking then at close to $400,000 to $500,000 to add those turning lanes.” winning bidder for the project. Once the design-build contractor is chosen, construction should start almost immediately. The City is anticipating the Bourget fire station to be completed first, by early to mid 2019. The Rockland station is expected to be finished a couple months after that, since its construction is a two- step process, having to first renovate the existing building. Council approved a budget for $3.5 mil- lion, plus a 10 per cent contingency, for the construction of the fire station in Rockland. This, along with a budget of approximately $2.1 million for the construction of a para- medic station to be conjoined with the fire station, results in a total budget of $5.96 million for the Rockland project. In Bourget, the total budget amounts to about $3.57 million – $3 million for the fire station and approximately $570,000 for the paramedic station.
Clarence-Rockland council may be replacing the County Road 17 entrance to the CIH Arena in Rockland with an alternative entrance. “It’s dangerous,” said Mayor Guy Des- jardins about the current entrance. “There have been accidents and it has even been proposed by the OPP that it is a dangerous entrance.” The main entrance to the arena would become the Caron Street entrance. Eventu- ally, the arena would also be accessible by a second entrance at the intersection of County Road 17 and De La Berge Street.
L’entrée de la route de comté 17 à l’aréna CIH à Rockland a été jugée dangereuse. « C’est dangereux, a déclaré le maire Guy Desjardins. Il y a eu des accidents. Même la PPO a jugé qu’il s’agit d’une entrée dangereuse ». La Ville songe à fermer cette entrée de manière permanente. —photo fournie
“People can now enter from the back. It’s safer,” said Desjardins. The closure of the County Road 17 en- trance would result in the need to install traffic lights at the intersection of De La Berge Street. The estimated cost for this work is $150,000. Another $45,000 will also be necessary to close off permanently the existing County Road 17 entrance by removing the asphalt. Council has decided
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ALEXIA MARSILLO alexia.marsillo@eap.on.ca
The bidding process is now un- derway for the new fire stations set to be built in Rockland and in Bourget. Now that city council has approved the budgets for the design and construction of the new stations in Rockland and in Bourget, the bidding process is underway. Colliers Project Leaders was brought on as project manager and is working with the municipal staff on the project. The bidding is now open to contractors for the design and build portion of the proj- ect. The City has pre-qualified six potential bidders. The open bidding tender will most likely remain open until the end of March, with evaluations of each bid beginning straightaway. City staff expect to have a report prepared for council by the end of March or early April in order to choose the
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