Monday, June 22, 1925 The Globe (Toronto) Page 11, col. 5

Protest entered against delaying grade separation

Bloor street business man declares he is suffering heavy loss

Railways seeking time

In a letter sent on Saturday to the Dominion Board of Railway Commissioners protesting against any further delay in the completion of the northwest grade separation work, J. Gordon Campbell, proprietor of Campbell's garage, at 1415 Bloor Street West, says he sustained a loss in business of $1,000 a month. Mr. Campbell, in his letter, says that since the construction of the two subways began last August he has kept his business going on borrowed money. When the work was commenced there were nine or ten businesses located between the two rights of way. At the present time there are only four.

Sees gloomy future.

Mr. Campbell says if the railways are granted further extension of time to complete the work he will have no course open to him but to assigr. [sic] and go out of business and lose an investment of approximately $50,000, interest, taxes, carrying charges, etc., he find, do not stop while the railways go before the Dominion Railway Board with an application to settle some point of law over the expropriation of property.

The decision of the railways to ask the Dominion Board of Railway Commissioners for the extension grows out of the dispute over the Boland property, decision upon which has not yet been made.

T. H. Hancock, of T. H. Hancock, Limited, Bloor Street lumber dealers, also wrote on Saturday to the Railway Commissioners objecting to any further delay in completing the work.

Thinks council should act.

Frank Greenaway, President of Ward Six Ratepayers' Association, he speaking to The Globe last night, said there should be some action at once by the City Council, the property owners and residents in the district have the work completed as quickly as possible. "It is too bad," said Mr. Greenaway, "that just when it looked like the end of the road there should be something turn up to hold up work on an undertaking so necessary and in the interests of the public. We had hoped to have a celebration about the middle of August," said Mr. Greenaway, who figured that the street cars would be running through the subways and to Jane Street by that date. Mr. Greenaway is still hopeful, however, that there may be some way of getting a decision on the property dispute without tying up such a needed improvement.

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