City of Peterborough New Speed Limits and Community Safety Zones In School Areas
/As part of National Safe Driving Week, The City of Peterborough has launched “Drive Slow Ptbo” to lower speed limits in Community Safety Zones in school areas, announced at Edmison Heights Public School on Tuesday afternoon.
An example of signs and the speed Photo by David Tuan Bui.
Speed limits have been reduced to 40 kph on major roads fronting schools and 30 kph on minor roads fronting schools and local roads leading to a school driveway. Local roads with walkway access to school property will receive a 40-kilometers-per-hour speed limit. Fines are doubled for traffic violations within a Community Safety Zone according to the Peterborough Police Service.
New speed limit and Community Safety Zone signs are being installed following Highway Traffic Act regulations at all 30 elementary and secondary schools. Additionally, five school areas — one in each ward — are pilot sites for road safety treatments to determine their effectiveness in slowing vehicular traffic and identify any operational or maintenance challenges associated with the treatments.
“This is just the pilot project and I think you have to take all that information you get and try to get out the wrinkles and apply it across the City of Peterborough,” said Councillor Keith Riel.
The treatments include pavement markings, delineators and vertical centerline treatments and electronic driver feedback signs.
These initial pilot areas are:
St. Patrick's Catholic Elementary School
Edmison Heights Public School
École Catholique Monseigneur-Jamot
St. Alphonsus Catholic Elementary School and Keith Wightman Public School
Queen Mary Public School
