Highland lights seem like part of Parkway plan

Here's a question for the north end's new councillor, Stephen Wright and Mayor-elect Diane Therrien.

Why the new lights at Highland Road and Fairburn Street, making the Parkway's first thrust into Jackson Park? They couldn't have picked a worse spot for winter. Cars need to come from stopped to traverse a corner and start uphill or slide downhill depending on their direction. It's already a problem when traffic flows and the ice from spinning tires will make it that much worse. The choke point is actually at Wolsely Street at Fairbairn Street so one has to wonder how did they choose this (soon to be the worst) location possible? The Parkway?

When you force traffic from Chemong Road and Fairburn Street up Highland Road, you are endangering the children that attend Highland Heights Public School. Can't think of a worse decision or act of planning forcing traffic up and down one of the steepest hills in Peterborough, passing a school and ignoring the choke point at Wolsely St.

To further substantiate this question there are no traffic lights at Highland and Chemong. You are now channeling traffic to cross one of the busiest streets in Peterborough. Yet, there are traffic lights at the corner of Wolsely and Chemong. School buses at least twice daily will impede traffic some more.

It's all about the Parkway and the former council's obsession with getting that built. The only answer is they are trying to establish a situation that forces people to ask for the Parkway extension to Chemong to be built, destroying a walking path and green space. They are creating a north thrust at Jackson Park.

Fairburn and Towerhill Road could also enter this discussion. John Stoeten, Cochrane Crescent