Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 4, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Traffic engineers rap Stop sign proliferation by Joe Rubin motorists who curse every time a Stop sign is planted on a previously Barren Street Corner May be consoled by traffic engineers who admit Many four Way stops Are unnecessary. Provincial traffic Engineer Ross Adamson says four Way stops do not reduce speeding and denigrate the whole traffic control Adamson recently recommended to Stonewall town Council that it remove some Stop signs after finding the Community is Over controlled by four and free Way signs. Clear tonight 1 sunny tomorrow 1 5 although his jurisdiction is High ways and Access roads into Rural towns Adamson says the four Way Stop in my View has proliferated unnecessarily in the City of Winnipeg his Winnipeg counterpart traffic operations Engineer Mel Hirt agrees. Most of the Stop signs approved by civic works and operations committee Are unwarranted from a traffic engineering Point of View traffic volume or the number of accidents do not justify installation he . In Many instances the traffic operations department is asked whether a particular sign is necessary before a decision is made. In most cases the department indicates the sign is not warranted but it is usually approved anyway Hirt . Of the controlled intersections in Winnipeg 743 have three four and five Way Stop signs. Each sign costs j25 for the plate Post and base components. While he admits some Stop signs May be unnecessary traffic superin Pendant Harry Forgie they do save the City the Cost of a traffic Light. Both Adamson and Hirt govern ments usually approve the installation of Stop signs because it is politic ally expedient. Although Stonewall has decided to remove Many four Way stops in the next year Adamson the Choice May not be politically sound. For example radar surveys done on Glenwood Crescent indicated speeding was not a problem on the Street. How Ever residents complained about the volume of cars on Glenwood claiming motorists were trying to evade traffic lights at Hespeler Avenue and Hender son Highway and Stop signs were in stalled. Adamson Many people believe traffic speeds Are too High through their areas and that Stop signs will slow Down the traffic. Well there Are numerous traffic studies which show that traffic speeds Are indeed lower through the intersection but 100 feet from the intersection they re higher simply because if the Motorist stops unnecessarily his inclination is to step on it and Speed up so he can go about his Hirt the number of collisions has increased in some locations where Stop signs have been erected. Motorists forced to Stop suddenly at a new sign May be rear ended or hit at right angles. Many step signs not needed free press Sun rises . Sets . Moon rises . Sets 9.33 final for Home delivery 957-0550 classified 956-2330 Csc struck pickets out in Winnipeg a picket line went up this morning outside the Csc building 541 Portage Avenue As local employees joined forces with about technicians across Canada to disrupt radio and television service. A Csc spokesman in Winnipeg this morning that Manitoba listeners May have to Settle for an abbreviated version of both the 24 hours news on television this evening and Csc radio s world at six if the technicians strike continues. He local officials will try and carry on As Best we can with manage ment and supervisory staff filling in for striking workers. If the National news is available from Toronto later tonight Well carry the spokesman added. He about 160 radio and television technicians Are on strike locally. Those tuning into Csc radio for their usual diet of weather news and commentary were greeted instead with a limited version of Normal programming. The technicians went on strike about . Cd sunday when Thev switched Ott the television transmitter at the network s downtown Toronto Headquarters at the conclusion of a National hockey league game. Csc spokesman Cec Smith the network would give first priority to news service during the walkout. He the Csc has joined pm and am radio and the television network would air programs requiring Little technical assistance. No new in studio programs would be produced he . No further talks were scheduled with the Union Smith . A spokesman for the Canadian wire service Guild another Union at the Csc he had Only scattered reports on whether his Union was honouring picket lines set up by the technicians. He that in some centres workers entered buildings before picket lines were set up. The technicians have been without a contract since last june and have been in a Legal strike position for about four weeks a Union spokesman . Talks with the network broke off Friday. Brian Lowe chief negotiator for the Union which represents technical employees in every province except que Bec the technicians three weeks ago voted 74 per cent in favor of a strike. Date and time of the walkout see Csc Page 4 Broadbent plans salvadoran Mission Back from the Brink Jack Lee Richardson 20, hangs from a Bridge about 15 metres above the Waters of the Ohio River at Huntington w.va., on the weekend resisting firefighters efforts to talk him to safety. Finally after 1v4 hours firefighter Herschel Marshall grabs the would be jumper and pulls him up. Sands Mother Calls for Calm Ira terrorist unconscious in 65th Day of hunger strike Belfast a appeals for Northern Ireland s roman catholics to abstain from violence when Bobby Sands Dies appeared to be making headway today As the Ira hunger striker Lay in a coma on the 65th Day of his fast. Official sources Sands 27, a convicted terrorist has been unconscious since Early yesterday. His family a priest and a team of medical specialists were with him in the Hospi Tal Wing of the Maze prison Southwest of Belfast. Sands Mother Rosaleen my son is dying i Appeal for Calm no fighting and cause no deaths or de mrs. Sands late last week that she had promised her son not to have doctors revive him when he lost consciousness unless the government acceded to his demands that a Block inmates in the Maze prison where he is confined Are granted status As Politi Cal prisoners. A prison source Sands was Skele Tal weighing less than 85 pounds and barely Aliva he weighed 155 March 1 when he began his fast demanding that imprisoned members of the Irish re publican army be treated As political prisoners and not As common Crimi nals. Violence a Way of three other Ira men Are also fasting in the Maze and one of them Francis Hughes 25, was reported close to death after 50 Days without food. The other two Raymond Mccreesh and Patsy o Hara Are in the 44th Day of their hunger strike but their lives Are not considered in danger yet. The belief is growing that Ira Lead ers have decided against the wide spread violence they threatened earlier if the British government did not give in to Sands and let him die. Pro Ira sources they do not think Ira members want to undermine the propaganda effect abroad of Sands s death by launching another round of terror bombings and attacks against British and protestant Security forces. Such bloody campaigns in the past have usually been followed by a drop in Ira prestige and financial support. Recent statements from sinn fein the Legal political of the outlawed Ira have been comparatively Moder ate. Bernadette Devlin Maliskey the fiery Young fighter for Irish Unity and Catholic rights told demonstrators yesterday they must hold our tempers and act in a disciplined and organized Pope John Paul appealed for an end to the years of sectarian warfare in Northern Ireland. Protestant paramilitary organizations earlier they were ready to fight if attacked. About 30 masked members of one of these armies Parad see some Page 4 Rosaleen Sands son is dying Ottawa up new democratic party Leader de Broadbent will visit Central America and the United states in the next few weeks bearing propos als he Hopes will end the civil War in Al Salvador. Broadbent s peace Mission is being sponsored by socialist International a 43-member organization of social democratic parties and governments around the world. He is vice president of the organization. It is my Strong belief that the s.i., which is an Independent progressive body aligned with neither major super Power can make an Independent and positive contribution to finding a Politi Cal solution to the tragic War in Al Broadbent at a news conference yesterday. Broadbent s itinerary will Likely not be finalized for another two or three weeks. He has not yet contacted the ruling military Junta in Al Salvador but met with Guillermo Ungo head of the rival democratic revolutionary front last week in Amsterdam during a meeting of socialist International leaders. Even if he does not receive Permis Sion to visit Al Salvador Broadbent plans to visit neighbouring countries Cuba May be one Stop and then Fly to Washington body Marks Edge of Broadbent refused to say what peace proposals he will be bearing on behalf of socialist International and its presi Dent Willy Brandt former Chancellor of West Germany. The proposals could change following discussions with Cen trial american leaders he . He also did not know whether . President Reagan would be meeting with him. That would depend ultimately on the . the . Regards the democratic revolutionary front As the tool of the soviet Union and Cuba and has sent military advisers weapons ammunition and other equipment to the right Wing regime of Christian democratic president Jose Napoleon Duarte. The front is a broadly based coalition whose members include roman Catho Lic clergy Christian democrats Socia lists labor unionists and communists. More than salvadorans have been killed since january 1980. See peace Page 4 French police try to unravel Hijacker s life in Touquet France a French authorities began yesterday to unravel the tangled life of Laurence James Downey a former Trappist Monk who hijacked an Irish jetliner with the goal of revealing How punching a religious Superior in the nose unveiled the greatest secret of All investigators also Learned that Dow Ney a former tour guide Carpenter language instructor and father of five children is wanted in Australia for questioning in an land fraud. The investigators the motive behind the eight hour hijacking which ended peacefully saturday night on a runway in this town on the English Channel was Downey s obsession with mysterious secrets the Virgin Mary is to have told three portuguese children 64 years ago. 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