Road design, safety and Vision Zero

[Bytor]

Waterloo's recent decision to lower the speed limits in residential areas to 30km/h was accompanied by previous policy decisions such that when complaints were made about speeding on residential roads, the speeds were checked against the signed speed limit rather than what the road was designed for. Thus a 50km/h residential road that was designed for 60-70km/h 50 years ago, previously nothing would get done and wouldn't even get modified to bring things down to 50. Now, the road has to be modified to bring drivers down to the posted speed of 30km/h.

Kitchener has a similar policy of stress being 40/km/h and 40 in school zone, but I do not know if Kitchener has a similar policy of comparing the speeds to the posted limit rather than the design limit.

Anybody got any information on that?