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Councillor miffed about lack of crosswalk support
Pat Healey

FALL RIVER: Barry Dalrymple is a frustrated man.
The local councillor emphatically says bringing crosswalk flags to his and other districts remains a priority, even while city councillors continually reject the idea.
Dalrymple, the councillor for District 2 (Waverley-Fall River-Beaver Bank), is blown away at the denial at what he calls one of the most basic, simple things. Considering there are no full, legal crosswalks in the area he represents, he doesn’t understand the approach by city councillors, many who do have full crosswalks, on the issue.
“I’m more flabbergasted at this then almost anything else that I’ve seen in the HRM to date,” Dalrymple said. “So many councillors oppose the notion of a crosswalk flag program for all the wrong reasons, most of them totally inaccurate. I have no idea where they got some of the information they said the night we debated it.”
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