Police To Target The Top 10 Intersections For Collisions In Peterborough As Part Of "Project Top 10"

From a Peterborough Lakefield Community Police Service Media Release today...

Over the past several years, the traffic unit has conducted Project Lansdowne.
This project was initiated as Lansdowne St had 6 intersections in the top 10 for the for the most collisions.
This remained the same for 2008 and 2009.
In 2010 the results of the project began to take effect as Lansdowne St. had only 3 intersections in the top 10 for the most collisions.
 
Due to the success of Project Lansdowne it will be expanded in 2011 to target all the high collision intersections throughout the city.
It will be called Project "Top 10"
It will follow the same concept and have a plainclothes officer standing at these intersections and calling out offences to uniform officers waiting in the area.
 
The statistics for 2010 showed the following intersections were in the Top 10 for most number of collisions.
1 Clonsilla and Sherbrooke
2 Monaghan and Lansdowne
3 Clonsilla and Goodfellow
4 Water and Parkhill
5 Parkway and Lansdowne
6 High and Lansdowne
7 Parkhill and George
8 Rubidge and King
9 Chemong and Towerhill
10 Armour and Parkhill.
 
The Traffic unit kicked off Project "Top 10" on May 30th.
 
Three intersections were targeted.
Monaghan and Lansdowne
Clonsilla and Goodfellow
Parkway and Lansdowne.
 
Officers will not only be looking for vehicles running amber and red lights this year but will also be targeting seatbelts and drivers using cell phones.
 
18 charges were laid in the first day.
1 red light
5 amber lights
3 seatbelts
3 cell phones
6 other HTA charges.
 
This project will continue on various dates throughout the summer.
 
Fines for noted offences are:
Red light $325.00
Amber light $180.00
Seatbelt $240.00
Cell Phone $155.00

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National Access Awareness Week Begins On Monday With Opening Ceremonies At Peterborough Square

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Shifting Gears Has Entered The Home Stretch

It is now the final week of Shifting Gears, and the numbers are starting to rack up. So far we have saved the same amount of CO₂ as the emissions from the electricity use of 2.7 homes for an entire year! Way to go Peterborough!

[Contributed by PtboCanada's Evan Holt]

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PtboPics: Free Bike Checkup Day

Peterborough Moves and Wild Rock were on hand yesterday across from City Hall to hand out maps of Peterborough trails and perform a free bike checkup.

[Contributed by PtboCanada's Evan Holt]

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Another Amazing Pedal For Hope Cycling Tour Completed For This Year

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PtboCanada Was There: Canadian Canoe Museum Welcomes Peterborough Paddling Club

Last night, the Canadian Canoe Museum hosted the inaugural membership event for the Peterborough Paddling Club. Local author and canoe expert Kevin Callan and the Kawartha Highlands Signature Site Park Superintendent, Paul Smith, both were speakers.

 

Peterborough Paddling Club (PPC) is looking to bring together the local paddling community and promote the healthy pastime with local excursions. Starting May 11th, the PPC will be holding Wednesday night local paddling trips to destinations such as Omemee-Emily Park, Lakefield Beach and Marsh, Stoney Lake, Young's Point, Warsaw/Indian River, Coon Lake, Otonabee River and Lovesick Lake. There will also be multi-day excursions in the Kawartha Highlands Signature Site Park this year. Sign up on their webpage to attend these events.

 

Kevin Callan signing his latest book "Top 50 Canoe Routes of Ontario"

For more on the Peterborough Paddling Club, go to their Facebook page or to their website.

 

[Contributed by PtboCanada's Evan Holt]

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What It Was Like To Take Part In Kirk Wipper Memorial Portage

Alana and Kyla, pictured at far left

It started out as a quick message asking about a Kirk Wipper Memorial Portage and would I be interested in participating. We were a group of Ontario Educators (aka "edutweeps") along with our families, who were immediately enchanted with being a part of this memorable portage that would end up at the Canadian Canoe Museum in Peterborough in time to mark the beginning of the Kirk Wipper public memorial.

Andy, Ross, Ryan, Jeff, Nick, Colin, Lynn, Anna, Kyla (my daughter) and I were a small but mighty team who were responsible for the first leg of the Peterborough leg of the portage. We all walked the portage and while the boys carried the canoe, Kyla and I had the chance to walk and talk with one of the organizers, Tim
McDonagh, and heard about his connection to Kirk, what the canoe meant to him, and how much he enjoyed walking with the canoe and meeting the people who had come out to participate in the portage.

Our leg of the portage was about 6 km (Hwy 28 starting at Springville United Church, up to Sir Sandford Fleming Drive, across and right onto Dobbin Road finishing at Lansdowne). After the canoe left us, I’m not
sure who carried the canoe or what their adventure entailed but I can tell you it was fun to participate in the memorial portage and be with friends who love to paddle, love to get involved, and are fun to be with. I'd like to think Kirk Wipper would have totally approved of our crew!

On a personal note, my daughter Kyla was the youngest person to carry the canoe and she was very proud to add her signature to the paddle that was given to his wife Ann Wipper after the memorial service. Although Kyla took some convincing to actually help carry the canoe, she was mighty proud to share her story with her dad at the end of the day.

For more pics from the day, click here and here.

[KirkWipper.ca; Canadian Canoe Museum]

[Contributed by PtboCanada's Alana Callan; photo via Flickr]

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Peterborough Workplace Transportation Challenge "Shifting Gears" Kicks Off On Sunday

Another season of the workplace transportation challenge Shifting Gears begins Sunday for the full month of May. The focus of the campaign is to encourage you to bike, walk, carpool, or use public transportation to get to and from work each day. Have you and your workplace registered yet?

[Shifting Gears]

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Peterborough Woman Takes 2010 Subaru Forester For Test Drive But Doesn't Return It

From Peterborough-Lakefield Community Police Service Media Release today....
 
Theft Over Arrest:
On the 27th of April a female attended at the Subaru Dealership on Chemong Road on the pretext of purchasing a vehicle. At 5:20 pm she took a 2010 Subaru Forester for a test drive did not return with the vehicle. At approximately 2:20 am, officers located the vehicle in the area of George and Brock Street. As a result of their investigation, Sylvia Jane McVicker age 44 of no fixed address was arrested and charged with theft over $5,000.00. She was held in custody and will appear in court later this morning.
 
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