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Huron rejects higher speed limit
Huron County Council did not
accept a proposal of the County of
Middlesex to increase the speed
limit on County Road '5 from
Highway 4 to Highway 61 from 80
km h (50 m.p.h.) to 90 km h (56
m.p.h.).
According to the road com-
mittee,. who recommended 'the
proposal be rejected, the speed
limit on County Road 5 should
conform with the speed limits on
Highway 4 and Highway 81.
It was pointed out by Reeve Bill
Morley of Usborne Township
that when people from his part of
Huron County go into London,
they often use Highbury Ave. in
Middlesex County where the
speed limit remains at 60 m.p.h.
According to Morley, this is
advantageous "if you're a little
behind time",
Ed Oddleifson of Bayfield
cautioned Morley that just
Power rate up
A 9.5 percent increase in the
price of bulk power to municipal
utilities and large industries
authorized by Ontario Hydro's
Board of Directors for 1978 will be
effectively reduced to about three
to four percent, Chairman Robert
Taylor has announced.
Because of rebates -resulting
from Hydro's improved revenue
position this year, it is expected
that at the municipal level •
Ontario householders will be
paying about five percent more
for their electric power in 1978.
"A welcome but complicating
factor in setting 1978 rates in-
volves returning to customers the
extra revenue for 1977 arising out
of a number of unexpectedly
favourable factors affecting the
year's results," Mr. Taylor said.
Almost half of the im-
provement in the revenue
position for 1977, currently
estimated at $108 million, is a
result of a substantial increase in
export power sales to the ,United
States and reduced costs of .ad-
ministration, operation and
maintenance.
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because the signs have never
been changed, drivers do not
have the right to travel at that
speed, He said he'd been caught
for speeding in Middlesex.
Engineer Robert Dempsey said
Middlesex is one county in this
part of the province where the
speed signs have not been
changed, and he suspected it was
just a temporary delay, Some
counties, he said, had not
changed their road signs when
the speed limits were changed,
because they were expecting
another change to metric this
summer.
Dempsey also said that if
speeders were caught on roads
posted at 60 m.p.h. it might be
difficult for the courts to make a
charge stick if someone was
charged with exceeding the 80
km h limit.
Huron's metric speed limit sign
conversion program is com-
pleted. About 400 speed limit
signs were -changed at a cost of
about $10,000. This work is
subsidized by the Ministry of
Transportation and Com-
munications.
The county council did not
concur with a resolution from the
Regional Municipality of
Durham requesting additional
financing from MTC on a "per
sign basis" for metric con-
version.
The road committee told
council the cost of government
setting up this one time program
would out -weigh the benefits each
municipality would receive.
NEW TEACHER AT ST. BONIFACE SCHOOL — Terry Wilhelm is
teaching grades seven and eight this year at St. Boniface School. He
was born and educated in Kitchener and is a recent graduate of the
Teachers' College at North Bay. Terry's wife is a teacher, too. They live
at St. Joseph. Staff photo
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