Trevithen St. residents finally get action from city hall

Porches thick with dust, vibrating walls, pounding headaches from the noise for four years theyve had it all.

But neighbours on a stub of a residential street that had become a service road for construction vehicles finally have peace proving the squeaky wheel gets the grease, as long as the press hears after one call to the media.

That call to The Free Press came after several pleas to city hall for help during the past two years, said Leigh Maulson, whose Trevithen St. home is one of only three on the dead-end block thats been dealing with heavy machinery since it was upgraded in 2011.

Since that summer, road crews have used a private lot at the end of the road to store supplies and machinery, while working on other roads in the neighbourhood.

From now on, city councillors get one courtesy call, then Im directing my complaints to the media, said Maulson, after learning the contractor would be moving supplies to the boulevards directly surrounding the job site.

This is amazing. Its so quiet. Its fantastic, he said. We can look forward to a summer where we can enjoy the outside of our property without all the dust and noise.

Maulson said neighbours welcomed the original 2011 roadwork, which cost them $2,700 on their property tax bills to upgrade water and sewer lines on their block. They begrudgingly tolerated the return of construction workers a year later, when crews spent much of the summer finishing and fixing problems from the previous year, he said.

But last year they were outraged that supplies for work on streets several blocks away were being kept in the lot, causing a steady stream of construction vehicles to use the block as a service route.

The answer is simple: Convenience. But certainly not fair, the city has suddenly agreed.

That lot is very convenient from a construction perspective because it is so close and a large area, said construction manager Justin Lawrence. But we recognize that three years of construction has a major social impact to these people.

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Trevithen St. residents finally get action from city hall