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CBC
3 days ago
- CBC
Yarmouth intersection to change after crash that killed 17-year-old motorcyclist
The MLA for Yarmouth says an intersection in the community will become a four-way stop after a 17-year-old motorcyclist was killed there earlier this month. The family of Brandon Isaac Muise complained about the intersection of Hardscratch Road and Greenville Road following the crash. Muise's motorcycle and a pickup truck hauling a trailer collided on July 12. Muise was going home to get ready for his shift at Walmart. The intersection has seen multiple accidents in the past, including another fatal collision in November 2024. The RCMP say the two roads were the site of 46 crashes from January 2019 to December 2024. "Something has to be done because what's there now is not working," Laura McLennaghan, Muise's aunt, said on CBC's Information Morning Nova Scotia. In a Facebook post, Nick Hilton. the MLA for Yarmouth, said the province had reassessed the intersection. "As a result of this review, the intersection will be reconfigured to a four-way stop," Hilton said. "This will include changing all lights to red, and new advanced warning signs. This work will be completed as quickly as possible over the coming weeks." Hilton said that while the intersection "meets policy and design standards," the changes are necessary. "Our government remains committed to making all our roads safer, and we will continue to look for ways to protect Nova Scotia drivers," he said. The assessment reviewed the overhead warning system that is currently in place, as well as the warning signs at the intersection. McLennaghan says her nephew's death is a shock to the family. Muise was a student at Yarmouth Memorial High School and was supposed to enter his final year this fall, according to his obituary. After that, he wanted to attend Acadia University and have a career in forensics or private investigation. "It's just so heartbreaking," said McLennaghan. "We're all just shocked, numb. Just can't believe that something so tragic would happen to our 17-year-old Brandon. We're all shattered." The family lives five minutes from the intersection. They have been calling for changes since the incident, citing high speeds along the two roads. The RCMP is still investigating the crash.
Yahoo
13-07-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Palm Beach to install traffic signal at Bradley Place and Sunset Avenue in February
A traffic signal is coming to the intersection of Sunset Avenue and Bradley Place by the end of February. The Town Council on July 8 unanimously voted to award AUM Construction a $909,395 contract while establishing a project budget of $1,045,804 for the traffic signal's installation. Council President Bobbie Lindsay did not attend the meeting. Town Engineer Patricia Stayer told the council that staff will ensure preparations for the installation are completed by Nov. 1. That way, crews can start construction soon after the town receives the traffic signal's mast arm in February, she said. Once the signal is installed, Palm Beach will then work to convert Sunset Avenue back into a two-way street, Strayer said. Sunset Avenue was converted to an eastbound one-way road in August 2023 to help ease the flow of traffic, but the change has since been met with continued criticism from residents. 'I think it's good for our residents to know that it will be going back to a two-way street,' Council Member Julie Araskog said. 'That was one of the things that a lot of our residents have brought to us.' Strayer also noted that there would be minor modifications to Sunset Avenue's parking and sidewalk. The effort to improve the intersection has been in the works for nearly a year. The Town Council in August unanimously approved a $149,782 contract tied to the design and production of the traffic signal's mast arm. That came after a Public Works Department commission study by Susan O'Rourke Engineering and Planning found that a traffic signal was warranted at the intersection to help reduce traffic. Diego Diaz Lasa is a journalist at the Palm Beach Daily News, part of the USA TODAY Florida Network. You can reach him at dlasa@ This article originally appeared on Palm Beach Daily News: Town to add signal at Bradley Place and Sunset Avenue in February
CBC
10-07-2025
- Politics
- CBC
Manitoba still listening to experts, premier says after scrapping recommended redesign for deadly intersection
Social Sharing Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew insists he isn't ignoring the evidence, after scrapping the redesign option for a deadly highway intersection preferred by his own government's experts. The province confirmed this week it won't put a restricted crossing U-turn, or RCUT, at the intersection of the Trans-Canada and Highway 5 in southwestern Manitoba, after hearing locals' strong opposition to the proposal. Seventeen people were killed and eight others injured at that intersection after a semi and a bus full of seniors from the Dauphin area collided there on June 15, 2023. Three people were hurt at the same intersection the following month in a three-vehicle crash. Kinew said each of the three proposed redesigns presented by transportation engineers — the RCUT, widening the median or putting up a roundabout — would achieve a comparable level of safety, according to a report commissioned by the province. While the RCUT was the Transportation Department's preferred option, "it clearly didn't have the support of the community," Kinew said at an unrelated news conference Thursday. "We got to listen to the people who are going to be the most frequent users of it." Right decision in face of 'adamant opposition': Kinew Replacing the current intersection with an RCUT would have eliminated direct left turns from the Trans-Canada, a busy four-lane divided highway running west-east, as well as going directly north-south on Highway 5. Instead, drivers would have made merges and U-turns to get where they're going. But pushback to the idea was fierce. Last month, more than 100 community members confronted officials at a tense public forum about the fate of the intersection, which is north of Carberry. A petition with more than 2,100 signatures implored the province not to move forward with the RCUT design. WATCH | How the proposed RCUT would have worked: Here's the RCUT design proposed for Manitoba intersection 17 days ago Duration 0:11 Kinew said Thursday his government promised a meaningful consultation process from the beginning. Choosing to push ahead with the RCUT "in the face of very adamant opposition from the community … would have shown that that consultation wasn't really real," he said. The premier has vowed to seek more input now that the RCUT proposal has been scrapped. At another intersection, the government may have chosen an option with less consultation, "but in this one, given the passion, given the emotions, given the history of the tragedy there, it makes sense for us to take more time," he said. Some area residents, as well as Carberry's town council, have argued the province should build an overpass at the intersection instead. The province has previously said an overpass is not an option due to current traffic volumes, but Kinew said Thursday it will be considered. He wouldn't estimate how long the consultation process would take, but said people in rural Manitoba will know their perspectives were heard. "We're not going to let this thing linger forever," Kinew said. Community input can't be ignored: traffic engineer A traffic engineer said the opinions of the community rightfully prevailed. "I think if you talk to most experts, they will realize that the input of the community, people who actually live there every day, it is important and it cannot be ignored," said Ahmed Shalaby, a professor of civil engineering at the University of Manitoba. While an RCUT could have been effective, the reality is it would have been an anomaly on the busy cross-country highway. Canada's only RCUT intersection is along Highway 16 near Saskatoon, though they exist throughout the U.S., where transportation officials have said RCUTs successfully reduce the number of severe and fatal collisions. Shalaby believes putting one at the Carberry-area intersection would have left some drivers puzzled, and would "introduce an additional level of risk that is hard to account for at this time." Over time, that risk would level off, he said, but "we don't want … drivers to be surprised by a configuration they aren't familiar with and then they make decisions that may not be safe." Shalaby said he's open to the idea of RCUTs being built elsewhere in Manitoba, but he recommends that happen at less prominent locations with lower traffic volumes. Jordan Dickson, who lives near the intersection and helped organized a protest against the RCUT proposal in May, said provincial officials didn't take into account how busy the intersection can get, particularly during harvest season. The report the government commissioned looked at two days in July 2023. Shalaby said he isn't convinced an overpass is the right approach for the intersection outside Carberry, but encourages further study of the idea.
CTV News
09-07-2025
- Politics
- CTV News
Manitoba to rework plan to change intersection where deadly bus crash occurred
CTV's Jeff Keele reports on why Carberry residents are against a proposed plan to improve safety at a deadly intersection. CTV's Jeff Keele reports on why Carberry residents are against a proposed plan to improve safety at a deadly intersection. WINNIPEG — The Manitoba government is backing away from a proposed change to an intersection where 17 people died in a bus crash. Premier Wab Kinew says after hearing from the community, the government will not proceed with a plan to reconstruct the intersection into an RCUT, or restricted crossing U-turn. The intersection of highways 1 and 5, near the Town of Carberry, was the site of a crash between a bus and a semi-trailer in June 2023. Area residents have called for safety upgrades, and the provincial Transportation department proposed an RCUT design, which would prevent traffic on highway 5 from turning left on or proceeding straight across highway 1. More than 2,100 people in the area signed a petition that said the design would not improve safety Kinew says the province will now step back and consider different options, and Carberry Mayor Ray Muirhead says residents would prefer an overpass to separate traffic. This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 9, 2025. Steve Lambert, The Canadian Press
CTV News
04-07-2025
- CTV News
What to do about ‘confusing‘ Halifax intersection? City looking at options
Several vehicles make left-hand turns after waiting for traffic to flow through the intersection on July 4, 2025. (Callum Smith/CTV News) As tourism season heats up, more people will be travelling to Halifax. That could lead to some increased congestion at one of the city's more confusing intersections, where Windsor Street, Chebucto Road and Cunard Street meet. 'I see confusion by a lot of people who aren't familiar with the intersection,' says Douglas Ward, a Halifax resident of 15 years. 'They're stopping in the middle of it and holding up traffic and they're getting somebody to beep their horns at them to get them moving.' While many locals understand the offset intersection, it's not the easiest to understand if you're unfamiliar with it. 'It's pretty confusing,' says Joel Evans, who lives nearby. He's witnessed 'a number' of near misses over the years. 'A lot of the traffic gets stuck,' he says. 'People are so worried about getting through the light, they forget about the pedestrians.' In his 16 years of living near the intersection, Mike Grimbly says that he hasn't seen anything dangerous, rather just frustration. 'It holds up traffic as opposed to 'it's dangerous,' in my mind,' he says. But he describes a standoff-like approach for some who struggle to navigate through. 'That's because you have people coming from (two directions), and they don't know exactly how far to pull up to make a left-hand turn, and they're waiting for the other group and they're waiting for the first group,' Grimbly explains. 'It's certainly an unorthodox type of layout, that's for sure,' he says. 'Because I've been here a long time, I understand how it works.' But a local salon owner fears that a new 79-unit apartment building that's under construction at the corner of Windsor Street and Chebucto Road will only add to the chaos. 'I'm just worried about the new building going in,' says Jason Gilbert, owner and operator of Jãs, 'how the traffic is going to flow through there. 'It's bad now the way it is. I don't know how it's going to be with the building there.' CTV News spoke to a couple of other businesses who declined an on-camera interview, but one said turn signals would help alleviate the confusion, while another predicted a roundabout could help in the future. In an interview Friday afternoon, a Halifax Regional Municipality spokesperson says staff are aware of the challenges some people face navigating the intersection, and they're working towards improvements. 'Short-term improvements would come as part of completing the AAA cycling network,' says Jake Fulton, a public affairs advisor. 'Staff are looking into longer-term improvements, maybe more significant improvements.' Fulton says a staff report is due to city councillors later this year. Windsor Street intersection Several vehicles make left-hand turns after waiting for traffic to flow through the intersection on July 4, 2025. (Callum Smith/CTV News) For more Nova Scotia news, visit our dedicated provincial page
