Over the past year or so I petitioned the Halton region to expedite the underpass on Derry (design work was accelerated to this year), represented Milton in the Sustainability Committee meetings, participated in the transit committee meetings, attended most council meetings and attended most public input sessions.  I’ve also gone up to the council as a delegation, helped plan the haunted house to raise > $5,000 for the hospital, participated in the Road to Change Transportation Master plan workshop, reviewed all site plans and projects that impact ward 8 and have answered hundreds of e-mails and phone calls on numerous issues. 

I am now asking you for support.  There is a lot of work that still has to be done and to achieve results successfully, I have to be in the council.  Campaigning unfortunately costs money.  If it helps, I donated $500 dollars myself and now spend 15-20 hours a week meeting residents and volunteering my time on different issues.  I am hoping to convince 50 of you to part with $25 (or 25 of you to part with $50). 

$25 can help me purchase 6 yard signs.  I wish I could do without the signs, since I find them aesthetically unpleasing.  Unfortunately, the signs are essential in name recognition, especially since many people in ward 8 still do not get the Champion.  Yard signs are also the single biggest campaign expense I will make.  They represent 33% of my total campaign budget. 

So if my message resonates with you then I would ask you to consider making a donation to my campaign.  You have to be a resident of Ontario and donations are not tax deductable.  I will be greatly honoured to have that level of support.  You may also consider getting one of my yard signs. 

Thanks for reading this post. 

ps. If you can volunteer or sponsor the event then please send me an e-mail.  We need some volunteers (are you comfortable with scary costumes?)

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A similar argument was made to council last month by Zeeshan Hamid, who’s vying to become the local councillor for the new Ward 8 in west Milton, south of Derry Road.

[Correction: Ward 8 actually starts at Steeles and ends on Britannia]

“In general, Milton needs to narrow collector roads and require traffic calming devices at least near elementary schools and parks,” stated Hamid in a submission given as part of a public meeting on the Town’s update to its official plan. “Halton police recently caught 127 speeders on Scott Boulevard, travelling on average 50 per cent faster than the speed limit. Recently, a seven-year-old boy was hit near P.L. Robertson school while he rode his bike.”

Unfortunately:

The Town’s policy is that traffic-calming devices aren’t warranted on collector roads, according to a 2009 report on residents’ requests for them to be installed along Woodward Avenue in old Milton.

Wait, if they are not warranted on collector roads (like Scott Blvd), then where are they warranted?  Major roads should be optimized for traffic flow, neighbourhood roads should have traffic calming.

We have it backwards with lack of turning turn lanes and uncoordinated traffic lights on major roads but wide open neighbourhood streets. 

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Donations are tax deductable.  You can donate by following this link.   If you can’t then may be you can find someone who can.  I need to find 20 people willing to donate $25 each.