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City considers roundabout at Second Line and Goulais Avenue
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35Do you know what a roundabout is? Having one there would be an improvement to that crossing, if anything.
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Mark Carney in the Sault today
SooToday 64When someone starts by name-calling, it's usually a sign that they’re either feeling defensive, trying to provoke an emotional reaction, or don’t have a strong argument to stand on. To those reading past all of that, just make sure you go vote.
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Local man pushes to open local road to all-terrain vehicles
SooToday 29This is a conservation area and should remain as such. Mixing hikers, bikers, etc. with motorized machines, many of who do not follow a speed limit is a great liability concern. I think there would be better success trying to secure access from Old Goulais Bay Road or Heyden. If the majority of people are trailering anyways, what's another 10 minute drive up hwy 17?
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City criticized for prioritizing vanity projects after west-end bridge closure
SooToday 27Looking at an overhead map, from Carpin Beach Road, westward over the bridge, to the first home, is about 800m. That is a large stretch of road that has no homes or anything at all, that is being fully maintained by the city, winter and summer. Does it make sense? As a taxpayer, I think it's time to analyze the cost of the City spending what will probably be over a million dollars on a new bridge, in addition to annual expenses to maintain a fairly long section of road with nothing on it, to allow a handful of homes a shortcut when another viable road exists (Town Line) that does not add a significant amount of time or distance to their drive.
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City considers roundabout at Second Line and Goulais Avenue
SooToday 25Roundabouts: Safety Benefits-reduce speeds of vehicles-eliminate right-angle crashes-reduce the number of vehicle-vehicle and vehicle-pedestrian conflicts at an intersection-reduced speeds allows for all users to judge better when they should enter the roundabout, and to detect and correct their mistakes -eliminate any type of high-speed collision, opposing left turn collisions, and head on collisions
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Andy Boston could face jail time for selling vehicles illegally
SooToday 58Then call up a wholesaler and make a deal. You can tell the owner is just making excuses at this point...
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Border crossings at Sault Ste. Marie drop nearly 30% during trade war
SooToday 50Unfortunately Chippewa County voted for this nonsense.
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City assessing benches damaged over the winter
SooToday 55Is Public Works the primary reason for the damage? Lack of proper inventory and identifying markers while snow covered? If that statement is true, that's unfortunate and a waste of municipal dollars.
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New street sign to be unveiled at Brad Jacobs meet-and-greet on Sunday
SooToday 14A bit surprising. Many places will not name places after people still alive, and sometimes even deceased. Algoma District School Board is one local example. The concern is a living person could eventually do something inappropriate after receiving such an honour. Was this not considered??
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Future of Sault YMCA uncertain as building put up for sale
SooToday 27Very sad for sure. Hopefully something positive comes out of this. The YMCA contributes to our comminity in many ways. A place to stay active and healthy, a place for kids to go and be safe, and many daycare facilities throughout town. One thing thats true is that it's hard to drive memberships with an old, outdated facility. A place that barely meets today's accessibility and energy requirements. Lower membership counts and high costs of maintaining old infrastructure are constantly working against each other surely lead to this sale.It's too bad the vision years ago to build a new modern facility was never seen through or successful. Even the renovations done years ago are now aging just like the rest of the place, unfortunately.
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Local man pushes to open local road to all-terrain vehicles
SooToday 20@soopeople - if you owned a chunk of land, you would have no problem mixing motorized vehicles with walkers and bikers, etc.? You would be be willing to be sued if someone operating a machine injures or kills someone? Lands designated as conservation land need to stay that way. For those arguing countering with the snowmobilers, the OFSC carries its own insurance. However they too are losing access all over the province for the very same issue. Liability on the private landowner and sledders who do not follow the speed limit or stay on the trail.
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City councillors to discuss new Dacey-Trunk intersection
SooToday 11Roundabout. Land is open on both sides of Dacey to accommodate.
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More construction work planned on underpass storm sewer
SooToday 14Yes, scrap the sidewalks too. There are rarely any people on the sidewalks we already have. /sarcasm.
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Are your kids confused by Bellevue Park’s 'ramps to nowhere?'
SooToday 18Quite frankly, to answer the question, this is of no concern to the average child. The ramps are nice as it allows them to enter the equipment safely. Have you seen a toddler run? The ramps help them get to the landing space and are a buffer before they can climb into areas of more difficulty. The equipment is modular and designed this way for a purpose. What is more concerning is the fact that some equipment at Bellevue Park has been out of service for over 3 years! There's equipment there that's 30 years old and doesn't meet today's CSA standards by a longshot. It'd be nice to see a plan to refresh this equipment with signature equipment that incorporates natural wood and engineered mulch instead of sand!
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Kohl’s in Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. closing its doors for good
SooToday 19"Despite the drop in traffic, it’s business as usual in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, according to the Sault Area Chamber of Commerce.“I personally haven’t seen anything that alarms me,” said Tony Haller, executive director, Sault Ste. Marie MI Chamber of Commerce.""You sure about that, Tony? You sure about that?
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Feds commit almost $20M for city's infrastructure needs
SooToday 11What a tiring narrative, road conditions have nothing to do with political affiliation. First, road budgets are a municipal matter that are decided by city staff and approved by city council, the people who the community voted in. Road were never being repaired quick enough due to decades of underfunding from the Fratesi days. Secondly, I am not stating I'm in favour of a floating pool, however it's funding would be from the bank of funding from visitor hotel stays, not taxpayer dollars.
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Poilievre says Carney's Liberals are 'counterfeit' Conservatives
SooToday 10All this, coming from the guy who flew in to Alberta to get his seat back. It's "not fair", but only when things aren't in his favour. Time to throw in the towel, P.P.
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Ward 3 councillor seeks re-election
SooToday 17I emailed to this councillor once or twice. Never heard a thing back. No reply, nothing. Sorry, don't have my vote.
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Kohl’s in Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. closing its doors for good
SooToday 13Canadian's aren't crossing to the USA over as frequently. A known fact. Much of the reason behind the lack of crossing to the USA is due to the current political climate. Less shoppers = lower sales = underperforming = decision to close.Blame closure on Trump? Yes, I'd be confident that this closure can be at least partially related to it.
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Kohl’s in Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. closing its doors for good
SooToday 13International bridge crossing statistics don't line up with this statement.
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