CollingwoodToday welcomes letters to the editor at [email protected]. Please include your daytime phone number and address (for verification of authorship, not publication). The following letter is in response to an article regarding funding for Highway 26 improvements, published April 12.
First, kudos to Ms. Skinner for stepping up to allocate funds and apply for this grant when our council was not in a position to.
Specifically, I sincerely hope that traffic congestion at the intersection of Highway 26 and Osler Bluff Road can be addressed at the same time. This intersection seems to be on both the Town of Collingwood’s and the Town of The Blue Mountains’ radar, but neither town appears to take ownership.
Without a roundabout or traffic light, and the amount of vehicular traffic northbound, westbound and eastbound, the wait to merge into traffic is so long that many drivers have become reckless, especially in their left turns through oncoming traffic.
The Town of The Blue Mountains transportation survey puts this intersection on four different problem area lists but has no plan to address it.
The 2019 Town of Collingwood transportation study improvement recommendation of five lanes for Highway 26 west of Harbour Street also doesn’t address it.
The Connecting Links program seems to be the perfect opportunity for this intersection to be addressed.
Luba Mifflin
Collingwood
