Comments on: Road Kill or Road Kill Not

By: admin

admin — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 01:07:56 +0000

Michael thank you so much for your ideas, they sure are good start.
I will look up The Fixer of the Toronto Star, but I don’t know if I am willing to go that far yet :).
I hope I don’t get myself in too much trouble with being a little more vocal about things.

Thanks for all your comments Michael,
Anna

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 12:40:09 +0000

Anna:

A couple of ideas on how to get this sorted out:

1. Contact the Public Works Department (or whatever they call themselves now) and see what the status is on this.

2. Contact Mayor Dawe who is both a local council representative and Regional representative as I believe this may be both a local (sidewalk issue) and Regional (street) issue. When the road was reconstructred the Region handheld the bridge and road alignment while the town did the sidwalks. Mayor Dawe may be able to do some digging on this issue both at the local and Regional level to resolve the issue.

3. Contact “The Fixer” of the Toronto Star This should be an entertaining story for them to cover and resolve.

By: admin

admin — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 05:13:16 +0000

Michael you are right about the culverts. As a matter fact I looked into one when there were cameras monitoring them, and probably someone is holding gallery of my face with all the other animals that pass through those culverts, lol. The issue with children is that they are not big enough to look over the railing, so they try to look through. Well this is what I see. My little guy still attempts to do that despite of my warnings every time, but until he fully understands he will always try to explore. Well it is my job to look after him, so it is my responsibility. Last couple of years the population of the Canada Geese on the boardwalk really increased, there are more nesting close to the boardwalk, and more walking on the boardwalk and more crossings as you see on the picture; and they also hang around the middle section. I also seen one nesting on the side of the curb on the boardwalk. This is why I assumed the breaks in the fence. Contacting and searching for answers is time consuming for me, at least for now, but I should contact the town and find out why?

Michael thanks again for your comment, appreciate your valuable input.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 20:57:12 +0000

If I remember correctly, the original concept for reconstruction of St. John’s Sideroad by the Region of York and the Town of Aurora required that culverts be put in under the road to let wildlife to go through. I think, and this goes a while back so I may be wrong, there should be a total of three culverts. Of the three, two should be “wet” crossing so that water is in the bottom of the culvert and one “dry”. I would have a hunch that all three (2 wet and 1 dry) would be suitable for a Canada Goose and, for that matter, ducks to waddle or paddle their way through.

So I see no reason for there to be breaks in the wooden fence that would endanger children and other passers by. In fact I would believe replacing the fence pieces so a solid fence is present would be more encouraging of the Canada Geese to use the culverts and not the roadway.