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July 4, 2013
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Fun at city’s Canada Day events
Robin nowhere to be seen
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WATERY FUN
Youngsters “walk” on water.
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HORSING ABOUT
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RODEO TIME
Jett Brown took more than just the one trip down a huge slip ’n’ slide put together by the Belleville fire department at Belleville’s Canada Day celebrations.
Looking to the future of transportation
By Steve Jessel
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EMC News - Belleville - With a growing population and an aging transportation master plan, the City of Belleville is looking at ways to accommodate all forms of transportation in the future, and bicycling figures to be a key aspect of that plan moving forward. “I think council as a whole is very supportive of promoting cycling in the city … the more people that cycle, the less cars there on the road, and the less the city needs to spend upgrading the
roads to accommodate more cars,” said Rod Bovay, Director of Engineering and Development Services department for the City of Belleville. “This plan is a start to identify where we need to look at putting some cycling infrastructure, whether it be bike lanes on roads, or off road trails, and completing a network that lets people get around the city safely and efficiently.” On June 26, the city hosted the second of three transportation master plan open houses at the Quinte Sports and Wellness Centre, with the aim of gathering feedback
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on a number of proposed solutions to both current and potential future problems. The former transportation master plan was created in 1990, and transportation planner Jennifer Armstrong of Morrison Hershfield (an engineering firm employed by the city) says the idea is to take a proactive approach, rather than a reactionary one. “If you want to accommodate future population and employment growth, you need a plan,” Armstrong said. One of the first steps to creating a new master plan was to create a vision
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statement with the aid of a stakeholder committee made up of different community members and organizations, including the provincial Ministry of Transportation, Quinte Conservation, Belleville on Bikes and others. Having presented the vision statement at the first open house, the second open house focused on an assessment of road and active transportation requirements both now and in the future. In Belleville, population is expected to increase 24 per cent up to 63,000 by 2031, and employment Please see “Potential” on page 5