\u201cPlease chime in.\u201d<\/p>\n
That\u2019s the request from Paul Orazietti, the executive director of the Cloverdale BIA. His organization just put out a new survey with some critically important questions about Cloverdale and the Highway 10 corridor.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve been promoting it on social media,\u201d Orazietti said. \u201cThe game plan is to look at different elements that can be improved.\u201d<\/p>\n
The survey\u2019s been out for about a month. He said it will remain open until at least the end of year.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe town is bisected by two highways, but it would appear there\u2019s a lot of sensitivity to traffic volume, and other issues, on Highway 10 itself,\u201d Orazietti explained, citing early feedback.<\/p>\n
He said they hope to be able to gather enough information to be able to identify several key areas that need to be improved or repaired.<\/p>\n
Orazietti cited one area of concern along Highway 10 that is a microcosm for the wider problems of that particular stretch of road. A pole is smack dab in the middle of the sidewalk out in front of Stampede Tack and Western Wear (pictured). Whether the pole was put there later or the sidewalk was built around the pole he doesn\u2019t know, but someone with mobility issues would have a hard time getting around it.<\/p>\n
The city\u2019s solution was to build a rectangular extension around the pole, which also creates new issues he noted. <\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s also a pole in front of McDonald\u2019s (pictured) that\u2019s also in the middle of the sidewalk and it\u2019s an even bigger problem,\u201d Orazietti added. \u201cThere are a variety of poles all the way down Highway 10 that are in the middle of the sidewalk. We really need to improve safety for people using the sidewalks on Highway 10. So, we really need to identify what needs to be done.\u201d<\/p>\n
A couple of years ago, Orazietti was instrumental in getting a pole moved for the middle of the sidewalk on the corner of intersection of Highway 10 and 177B Street outside the Kohinoor Bistro and Restaurant. That pole blocked anyone in a wheelchair from being able to turn the corner and stay on the sidewalk going from 177B to Highway 10 or vice versa.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe city and the province don\u2019t tell you when they do stuff, but if they know it\u2019s an irritant, or you have statistics that back up the fact that something needs to be done, then eventually they get to it,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe people who run the highways are concerned with traffic flow and reduction of accidents,\u201d he added. \u201cSo if the \u2018carnage indicator\u2019 is not high enough for them to say, \u2018this is a (crap) show,\u2019 then the problem gets put on the back burner. If the carnage indicator is high, then you get put on it priority list.\u201d<\/p>\n
Orazietti said it\u2019s a powerful motivator as no one wants more people to die, so priority is given to areas with more accidents.<\/p>\n
He said area residents never really talk about the carnage indicator. The biggest concern for locals is traffic flow.<\/p>\n
\u201cHighway 15 is matching Highway 10, if you look at how far the traffic is backed up, it\u2019s pretty intense on both,\u201d he noted. \u201cAnd it\u2019s only going to get worse.\u201d<\/p>\n
A variety of issues are contributing to the growing volume of traffic, including: several new condos and townhouses going in, the new hospital site to be completed in a couple of years, and a new\u2014more than 400,000 square foot\u2014warehouse being completed south of Clover Square Village.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, we need to identify everything, figure out what we can do, and move on whatever action items we can.\u201d<\/p>\n
Orazietti hopes as many people as possible fill out the new survey so he will have something to present to the new mayor and council and to the new provincial government.<\/p>\n
The survey can be found by visiting the BIA\u2019s website\u2014cloverdalebia.com<\/a>\u2014and clicking on the second slide on the main screen titled, \u201cWhat\u2019s in store for the Cloverdale town centre?<\/a>\u201c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cPlease chime in.\u201d That\u2019s the request from Paul Orazietti, the executive director of the Cloverdale BIA. His organization…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":969051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-969050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=969050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/969051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}