SDG conducts review of speed limits, drafts changes

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At the request of Couns. Mark St. Pierre and Tony Fraser in November SDG staff completed a review of speed limits in its regional hamlets and villages.

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Infrastructure manager Mike Jans presented the council’s findings on Monday in the form of a draft list of recommendations for speed zones. He encouraged each municipality to review the changes and provide feedback before the question comes back to council in July. Plans are for the council to adopt a bylaw to implement any changes this fall.

“I think that’s something we should really investigate and see if we can get (more) of these transition zones and maybe move the (50 and 60 km/h) zones further away from the downtown areas ,” Fraser said in an earlier discussion. meeting, where the lowering of speed limits in certain areas was discussed.

On Monday, Fraser said in his 2024 budget that the Township of North Dundas has invested in work to reduce speeds to 40 km/h in its residential areas.

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When looking at 66 hamlets and villages across SDG, 62 have a county road running through them, according to Jans. The four with no passing county road include Ormond, Bainsville, Bonville and Glen Nevis.

“One thing the study brought to light was that we didn’t have transition zones everywhere, in line with the best practices we like to apply. There are still a lot of areas where we went from an 80 km/h zone to a 50 km/h zone without an intermediate step,” he explained.

New or revised transition zones are proposed for many locations based on local density and development characteristics.

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Jans also acknowledged that future growth could warrant additional changes in some areas in the short to medium term. This could include controlled stop intersections where reduced speeds have been observed to be implemented inconsistently, according to the report. The report also suggested that reduced speed limits could be extended in front of some rural elementary schools where slower speed limits currently exist.

“I’m just wondering if at the next committee of the whole meeting we can get a more formal report, a more formal presentation perhaps on … the rationales behind what speed limits would be recommended in what areas, for what reasons,” said cone Carma Williams.

The list of speed zone recommendations was included on the meeting agenda and is available on the county council’s agenda webpage.

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