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112 <br />Special Council Meeting <br />4/10/94 <br />Page Ten <br />them, and the one thing I have not heard you talk about is the cost of providing police <br />services or flagmen which would increase as well with the westbound traffic flow. <br />Mr. Svracuse said you said opening Highland Road will not make it faster, but it will <br />make it faster. Again, I will reiterate: what's the cost of one life? <br />Mayor Rinker said it will not be faster as far as response time. <br />Several members of the audience said it has to be. <br />Chief Stevens referred to the diagram of the Highland/SOM intersection. He said as I <br />understand the alternative, if you are saying that half of Wildwood would be closed and <br />the westbound lane would be open. The tum into Wildwood would be an eastbound <br />tum for emergency vehicles. If there is nobody sitting there, that would not be a real <br />problem. What I am saying is that if you are going to do that with the seams in the <br />concrete right off of the edge of the roadway, so you would be turning from basically a <br />slightly less than 20' road surface onto a slightly more than 21' road surface at a 90 <br />degree angle. For the wheel base of our ambulance and fire trucks, that tum is not <br />possible. Chief Stevens said Captain Jamieson from our Fire Department is in the back <br />of the room. <br />Captain Jamieson said you can't take the turn; if you lose it (a vehicle) off the road, you <br />wouldn't get there. <br />Chief Stevens said the phone calls I was receiving was regarding the access of <br />emergency vehicles for that neighborhood. I think people should be aware that that <br />turn would not be possible anyway. <br />A resident said I guess my question would be, we continue to hear about convenience <br />and a real issue with safety. Mayor, you said something about if you weigh out all of <br />the factors evenly, you can't weigh out the factors of safety. You talked about it would <br />be increasing incidents to do it that way, those are safety incidents and I think with the <br />suggestion I heard from someone on Council to increase traffic control, I would spend <br />the money gladly to increase the number of hours that our policemen would work with <br />flagmen or whatever to do traffic control. If you have to put in some kind of temporary <br />asphalt thing to enable an ambulance to come in, to me this just seems like basic <br />problem solving. I have great confidence in our police. I have told you that. I have <br />great confidence in the ability and the skills of emergency equipment, fire et cetera, in <br />Mayfield Village. I also agree that if we work together that we can figure this out. I <br />don't want to see tonight that it is a yes-no situation. I would rather you all take a little