Friday, February 13, 2015

Concern over new North York TCDSB school spreads beyond its borders


TORONTO –  The Toronto Catholic District School Board’s (TCDSB) plan to expropriate 30 townhouses in North York to build a new school has caused concern among more than just the residents who could be forced out of their homes.

Petitions collected by nearby residents concerned about traffic each have more than 300 signatures.

Jay Sobel spoke to Global News during the morning drop-off period outside Lester B. Pearson Elementary School on Thursday, near the proposed site of the new St. Joseph’s Morrow Park all-girls school at 500 Cummer Avenue.

Over a span of 20 minutes, the streets were filled with school buses, cars, students and their parents. Vehicles and pedestrians frequently came within a foot of contact, traffic was held up because only one car at a time could make it through the snowbank-narrowed throughfare and side streets were regularly used to make U- turns and three-point turns.  (more...)




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