The warden of Antigonish Co. says they continued to raise concerns with a dangerous intersection in 2019, and will keep doing so in 2020.
Municipal councillors first brought up their concerns with the Beech Hill Rd.-Trunk 4 intersection in Sept. 2017.
There have been 19 collisions at the intersection since Jan. 2017- one of those crashes was fatal Dec. 2.
In a year-end interview with The Hawk, Owen McCarron, the municipality’s warden, says provincial officials have told them they’re putting in a roundabout, but not until 2021-22.
“We’re saying move that construction to the spring/summer of 2020, which is this spring,” he says. “That’s what the public are telling us, they want to see a permanent solution- given the activity around there in the last few weeks, we see the need.”
McCarron says councillors will continue to push for a speed reduction, rumble strips and traffic lights as short-term measures.
2020 brings the next round of municipal election, and McCarron says his intention is to re-offer.
He was first elected to municipal council in 1994; he’s been warden since 2017.
McCarron tells The Hawk he plans to run again.
“At this point, my intention certainly is to re-offer- I’ve been on council for 25 years, (it) doesn’t seem like that long, but time slides by,” he says. “My intentions at this point are to re-offer for at least one more term.”
McCarron says his sense is most councillors also intend to re-offer.
