08-27-2015, 07:40 AM
Someone in the Cycling thread mentioned a good detour between Downtown and Uptown right now is Duke-Waterloo-Roger-Herbert is something similar. A lot of additional motorists are using streets like Moore and Waterloo with King closed.
Signage has been in place for a while pleading with motorists to "respect the inhabitants" and so on. There is also new signage (I keep forgetting to snap a picture) with a thirty kilometer per hour speed limit.
That's kind of funny to me as, of course, the speed limit there as everywhere else where it is not signed is fifty. I expect these are not legal limits but merely advisories. In neighbourhoods like this (residential, older and so not designed for high speeds and maybe cheaply redesigned to prevent them), I wonder if we might be able to pursue a 30 km/h speed limit, which is so much better for residents' health and safety, and walkability. Someone at city hall decided to put these signs up, so maybe this type of thinking is on their radar.
Signage has been in place for a while pleading with motorists to "respect the inhabitants" and so on. There is also new signage (I keep forgetting to snap a picture) with a thirty kilometer per hour speed limit.
That's kind of funny to me as, of course, the speed limit there as everywhere else where it is not signed is fifty. I expect these are not legal limits but merely advisories. In neighbourhoods like this (residential, older and so not designed for high speeds and maybe cheaply redesigned to prevent them), I wonder if we might be able to pursue a 30 km/h speed limit, which is so much better for residents' health and safety, and walkability. Someone at city hall decided to put these signs up, so maybe this type of thinking is on their radar.