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Tuesday, April 24, 2012

City Puts Brakes on Speed Demons

Leadfoots will soon find it trickier to bomb around the city's residential neighbourhoods....at the latest common council meeting, manager of traffic and pedestrian services Tim O'Reilly putting forward policy to calm traffic around school zones in particular. 

O'Reilly says the goal is simple: to reduce speeds to below the speed limit, and get volumes of vehicles to where they should be on a residential street.

The proposed policy included 30-40km zones around schools and tougher penalties for speeding. He said it's a major issue, with over 90 requests to slow down traffic in neighbourhoods throughout the city, and you could be seeing more measures like speed humps and raised crosswalks as they identify where the priorities are.