Speed limit lowering to 30km/h in some Winnipeg areas – Winnipeg | 24CA News
A decreased velocity pilot undertaking is about to start out on Wednesday, March 1, and it’ll decrease velocity limits to 30 kilometres per hour in some Winnipeg neighbourhoods.
“Probably the number one reason we’re piloting this is the impact on quality of life,” stated Public Works Committee Chair Janice Lukes, who has been pushing for lowered speeds because the undertaking was first launched to the council in 2020.
The neighbourhoods of Tyndall Park South and Bourkevale will drop to 30 kilometres per hour, whereas Worthington and Richmond West will go to 40 km/h.
Lukes stated though most severe accidents are on main routes, decrease speeds will enhance security in a rising metropolis.
“When you densify a city and increase the population, more people are using their yards, streets, driveways, and if the traffic is calmed, it improves the quality of life.”
Lukes stated she has had a mixture of optimistic and destructive suggestions main as much as the undertaking.
“I think actually a lot of people don’t even know what’s happening, so when the signs go up, you know, that will be their notification. When you change the speed limit on a street, as per the Highway Traffic Act, all the speeds are enforceable by the city.”
“I would like to think that the police would give people warnings because it is a pilot and it’s new. But, you know, the police are going to do what the police want to do.”
People in different main cities throughout the nation are already driving slower of their neighbourhoods, making Winnipeg an outlier.
“Most other jurisdictions in North America have a default speed limit in residential areas of 40 km/h or 25 miles per hour, which is the same thing. We are at 50 (km/h),” Ahmed Shalaby, a professor in civil engineering at University of Manitoba, instructed 680 CJOB’s The Start on January 5.
Out of Canada’s high 10 largest inhabitants centres, Winnipeg is the one one which both hasn’t already explored a pilot undertaking, made plans to decrease residential velocity limits or decreased some already.
Lukes stated her hope is to finally see lowered velocity limits in residential areas in the whole metropolis “and in the downtown, where we’ve got a lot of population, we have a lot of density.”
“I mean, maybe the downtown goes to 30 (km/h), but these pilots are going to help us better understand that and we’re going to continue looking at other cities.”
– With information from Global’s Rosanna Hempel and Iris Dyck
© 2023 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.
