San Francisco by the Bay means more cars in an already congested South Pickering

Won't plans announced by GO to expand parking at the Pickering station alleviate much of the traffic problems in South Pickering?

No, no, no! Expanding GO parking or enlarging the GO station will have exactly the opposite effect on an already congested Bayly and Liverpool intersection.

That will mean that most of the 1,100 cars resident at San Francisco by the Bay, the SR&R monster development, will be tempted to drive to the GO. At least the current parking situation is so bad that it may actually act as a deterrent.

Can you imagine what adding 1,100 cars to the mix will be? Bayly and Liverpool will become a zoo!

Already, commuters who walk to the GO have to take their lives in the hands when they cross the intersection.

Of course, the promoters of the SR&R development, will tell you that a traffic study has absolved SR&R, that there will no significant increase in traffic along Bayly. Sounds to us like SR&R funded the study because it describes another planet, not Bayly Street as we who live there know it.

Anyone in the area of the Bayly/Liverpool intersection knows the mess that ensues every time a train pulls in and disgorges its passengers at the Pickering station. The Liverpool stoplights back up cars as far east as the industrial mall to the east of the GO station. Cars are backed up across the 401 overpass and back down Liverpool. Add to that hundreds of cars attempting to get in and out of Tim Horton’s. Now add another thousand cars.

What is being proposed with the third high-rise tower at San Francisco by the Bay beggars belief.

—Georgs K, chair, Bayshore Neighbours