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A controversial recommendation to lower the speed limit to 40 km/h on local streets in Windsor has been pushed down the road following a request by Mayor Drew Dilkens the refer the issue to a special committee that will study road safety.
IN a 6-5 vote, council at Monday’s meeting supported the mayor’s request to refer the speed limit issue to the city’s Vision Zero Policy group.
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As council braces for a heated debate Monday on dropping the residential speed limit from 50 to 40 km/h, Mayor Drew Dilkens is pitching an alternative approach to preventing cars from bombing through neighbourhoods.
“I want to do something that actually makes a difference and I don’t believe reducing the posted speed limit to 40 is going to be a sufficient deterrent. I really don’t think it’s going to work,” Dilkens said on Tuesday, in advance of Monday’s meeting when a very close vote is expected on the proposed blanket speed limit drop on residential streets. It would cost around $734,000 to implement, largely to erect signs on the many arterial roads where the 50 km/h limit would remain. Dilkens is proposing that council instead create a $1-million capital fund to pay for speed bumps and other traffic calming measures that residents could get installed on their street if they get a prescribed percentage perhaps 50, 60 or 70 per cent signing a peti
Mar 3, 2021
A rendering of the Lake Superior State University Center for Freshwater Research and Education is shown. LSSU received a $956,858 CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant from the Economic Development Administration within the U.S. Department of Commerce to purchase lab equipment to build capacity at the Center for Freshwater Research and Education, according to an announcement from LSSU. (Graphic courtesy of LSSU)
SAULT STE. MARIE Lake Superior State University received a $956,858 CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant from the Economic Development Administration within the U.S. Department of Commerce to purchase lab equipment to build capacity at the Center for Freshwater Research and Education, according to an announcement from LSSU.
SAULT STE. MARIE, MI Lake Superior State University received a $956,858 CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant from the Economic Development Administration (EDA) within the U.S. Department of Commerce to purchase lab equipment to build capacity at the Center for Freshwater Research and Education (CFRE).
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The project, to be located in a Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Opportunity Zone, will be matched with $239,215 in local funds, is expected to create 20 jobs, and generate $14.2 million in private investment. Opportunity Zones are meant to spur economic development nationwide; there are 288 in Michigan.
“We are ecstatic about this grant because it allows us to leverage our new building and our location at the nexus of three Great Lakes to become leaders in freshwater science and training while also creating opportunities to expand blue economy sectors in our region,” said CFRE Director Dr. Ashley Moerke.