GRAVENHURST — Concerns about traffic site lines on Muskoka Road south here have been alleviated.

Contractors trimmed neglected tree growth on the main street at the intersection with Main Street that had hindered southbound access bringing it in line with other stretches of the road.

Neighbour Lois Cooper, who first alerted the town — and us — and had complained for years about the potential safety risk, said she was happy to see the town’s work and that “now drivers don’t have to risk going out into traffic.”

She said today that she was “happy” and “relieved” that the town had responded in a positive way to complaints by her and others who use the busy intersection and would have been impacted by potentially fatal driver-side door T-bone accident.

She called the situation an “accident waiting to happen,” adding in an original story on the problem that she had seen several “close calls.”

Three workers spent five hours Monday morning removing the dangerous excessive shrubbery and some trees.

Cooper expects that maintenance of the over-growth will continue and won’t be a threat again in the future — at this intersection and others in town.

The Town of Gravenhurst has been concentrating on its public boulevards and other spaces it owns and encourage property owners to be equally vigilant in tending to grasses and weeds even on sidewalks.

Cooper hopes that partnership will benefit in the further beautification of the town that is mostly lined with flower pots, signage and lights save for a section of Bay Street leading down to the Wharf.

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