General Road and Highway Discussion

[ijmorlan]

I don't think this goes far enough, and my opinion is that residential streets should have a standard speed limit of 30km/h, and photo radar should be used much more widely. I just wanted to post it to contrast with the City of Kitchener's decision back in August to implement a pilot program reducing speed limits in a mere three neighbourhoods (and the school zones in those neighbourhoods to 30km/h).

As long as Glasgow St. counts as an arterial, with a limit of 50 or 60km/h, I’m OK with this in general principal. Also, there needs to be a plan to progressively rebuild neighbourhood residential streets with small intersections and other measures to make the slower speeds feel right. If you take an urban speedway like Westforest Trail and just put a 40km/h limit sign on it, it will feel to drivers like they could go faster by getting out and walking, and as a result many won’t slow down. The slowdown has to feel natural.