Globe & Mail Coverage of Traffic Issues
Globe & Mail, 1984
A news article from the Globe & Mail covering the Scarborough Traffic Study initiated to investigate the traffic and parking concerns around Dragon Centre Mall. It documented the racial tensions that emerged as a result in the 1980s.
The headline reads: ‘Scarboro traffic study set over plaza’s parking woes’
The body reads: A proposal to study traffic conditions at the Glen Watford shopping centre has been endorsed by Scarborough City Council as a result of unrest over parking in the area north of Sheppard Avenue. In April, a roller-skating rink was converted to a shopping plaza called the Dragon Centre and that enterprise has been so successful it has drawn complaints from area residents and merchants about the… New Paragraph: A few residents shouted racist comments at a May 28 meeting of ratepayers. Ronald Kelusky, interim president of the recently revived Agincourt Ratepayers Association, said his 202-member association “is an organization primarily for the community and will represent everyone. It will not tolerate any racial prejudice such as displayed at that meeting.