Sundre seniors have identified a number of traffic concerns on Main Avenue, the town's busiest roadway, including the need for more marked crosswalks.
In a letter sent to Alberta Transportation, the multi-stakeholder Sundre Seniors Housing and Care Committee says it has identified “concerns over potentially dangerous issues on Main Avenue.”
Committee chairperson Charlotte McInnes says: “Many local resident have approached myself and asked ‘What is it going to take, a fatal accident before something is done to address the unsafe conditions on Main Avenue in Sundre'.”
The committee identified four main areas of concern:
• The committee would like speed reduced from 50 kilometres per hour to 40 kilometres per hour “as fully loaded 18 wheelers carrying logs, lumber or oversized oilfield equipment are frightening, especially as the pedestrian sidewalk is right beside the road. This is a very real danger to seniors and small children.”
• The committee would like to see more marked crosswalks along Main Avenue, especially near Sobeys.
• The committee would like to see the bridge over Prairie Creek west of Sobeys widened, including adding a pedestrian walkway “as many necessary services are arrived at on foot west of that bridge.”
• The committee would also like to see more ‘No Parking' signs along the roadway “as many new visitors to our community or persons who have not been back to Sundre since Main Avenue has been changed (to four lanes instead of two) do not realize that Main Avenue is a two-lane highway, with no parking on either side.”
“Thank you for forwarding our concerns on to the correct persons to handle them. I am sure they will be promptly and properly addressed,” McInnes said in the letter.
A copy of the committee's letter was scheduled to come before Sundre town council for information this week.
