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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