The Goderich Signal-Star, 1979-01-04, Page 6•
PAGE 6 —GODERICH5IGNAL-STAR THURSDAY JANUARY 4, 1979
Bayfiel Road„.. 'good deal
for Goderich taxpayers
BY JEFFSEDDON ." Highway 21 as a town
Drivers in Goderich got street. He said the storm
convenience that
a glimpse of ' the. twill a- sewer installation that
accompany the Widening ,---,-
sApart•of the recon -
of Bayfield.- Road •when r -ction project was
badly needed. He added
late in 1978 detour o were.
set to permit -the ftest that the installation of the
pp
trqnk enables the town to
work ore the project to be
done..
. now consider recon-
-
Preliminary,- work on struction of access,
the $1 million plus project streets as money per -
was starteki in the fall of mi . Hunter said- that
the year and continued any of the streets,cOuld
well into 'December. fnot _be - considered for
Contractors • used • a retonstratiqp Jiecause
weatRer per -milting even if stormsewers
philosophy on the—job
planning' th stay on the
site until winter forced
them . to pack up until
spring. A relatively -mild
Novel -Ober and December
was* a. bonus .for tle
• c•onti-actors who
maged to. get_moat of ,
the , sewer construction, •
street Lighting and' un-
• 'dergxel service' work
• done -leaving 'the actual •
' reconstruction of the road .--
tiritilthe spring of°1-979.
• The .higtway widening
has been a lorfg time
coming having been .
• topic -.at Goderich 'town
council meetings, for -
., serral years, before arty
• shovels wen.t. •in the
ground. Council went the
• gamlit' in discussing the• ° • ,
project. Consideration •
was first given to --pr- .
chasing- property to
• straighten'out the dog leg
between Bayfield Road
and Victoria greet but
land _ costs ended that"
• proposal and attention
was\turned to P-upchasing
land to widen the dog leg
• into four lanes to
decongest traffic at the
corner. That proposal
. solved sortie of the traffic •
problems on Highway 21,
but council was still faced
task of_
upgrading sewers 'along
• the road and still' would
• have to reconstruct it to
get that job done.
The decision to widen
the entire _s.o_a_thern
portion of 'Highway 21
was made when figttres to
-do the work were totalled
and compared to costs to
install. a badly needed
trunk sewer and ,rebuild
the road into two lanes.
The only extras the town
had to pay for was an
extra two lanesef asphalt
and when future
•developments in
Industrial Park were
considered and traffic to
and from Suncoast Mall
added into the normal
flow of vehicles coun-
cillors felt four lanes
• justrit.
Because Bayfield Road
-is a connecting link
through Goderich for a
provincial highway the
province picks up the
lion's share of the costs.
The estimate for the job
4,-;•.-.4s $1,011,000 and of that.
Goderich taXpayerswill
pay just $200,000.
-The- -Cost§ to tlie-toWn.
-.stacked against 'the
• benefits make the High-
way 21 „project an ex-
cellent deal according to
commissioner of works
Ken Hunter Hunter
explained that to weigh
--the benefits of the project
one would have to think of
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were installed there wa'S'
no outlet for them to
dump into.
The final decision, to
widen Bayfield Road was
tied into another con-
troversial project in
Goderich, the
beautification of The
Square. Council used the
plans for the.. .new
sidewalk, landscaping
and lighting of The
Square • to further
"decrease costs for the
Bayfield ROad project.
ttst7
so-
New lights chosen for the
core area project per-
mitted the town to take
street lights from Court
House Park and' Move
them on to Highway:21
and when those were
added with lights taken
off Huron Road the town
escaped hefty casts for
street lighting: on
Bayfield Road. - •
The costs for the street
lights on Highway 21
were estimated. to be
about $44,000 but -the use
of the lights on The
Square and Huron Road
reduced that bill to about
$10,000.
Hunter pointed out that
some of the • work on
Highway 21 may have
had- to be done .even if the
, widening wasn't agreed
• to, by--coun-eit- •H -e s aid the
town was looking at in-
stalling sidewalks from
• Bennett Street south' to
the town limits at an
estimated cost of $7,000
'and upgrading '• • of,
sanitary sewers on -
Britannia ' Road at an
estimated cost of $18,000.
He said those jobs were
handled under the.
widening but pointed out
that if the town had -done
only •those two projects
and. not widened the road
it would only have saved
about $130,000 of the
426sO,0.00 thg entir'e project
6ts
The Public Utilities
Commission also helped
to hold down costs on the
. widening* project. The
PUC ndgi d t hael 1 stthree ewt olrigkhotsf
and burying hydro ser-
vice and did it much
cheaper than , a Con-
tractor would have. Much
of the utility work will be
done 'for labor only with
no material costs because
of the transfer of
materials from other
areas of town.
Hunter said when work
resumes on the widening
in the spring and summer
Bf FEW -Ro-a-a-mAillr:bc
closed to traffic and
motorists will be re-
• routed up Gibbons Street
• from .Britannia Road to
•Bennett St'reet. He Said
,,- the detour will probably.
" fast for about three
months' adding that he
hoped. Much of the work
will be completed bY
September when Victoria
School re-oliens• after
summer holidays.
• This hydraulic shovel icooped tons of earth from
the side of Bayfield Road during the fall and early
• winter as workers installed a new storm sewer that
is part of the highway widening. Warm tem-
peratures Made -frost problem and despite ap- •
• pearances here verg little snow -fell to delay con- --
structibil. (photo by Jeff Seddon)
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• Workers on the_ storm sewer on Bayfield Road
• were given a break by Irother Nature in 1978 and
w -ere. able to complete most of the work on the
sewer pipe by Christmas. Very little snow fall
• enabled the workers to, stay on the job .while
• warm temperatures kept frost from going too
r4.
deep making'cligging relatively easy. The final
sections of pipe to be installed this year were laid
in place late in December and most of the heavy
equipment on the job taken away. (photo by Jeff
Seddon)
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