City launches traffic safety plan
The city has announced a plan to reduce fatalities on its streets, including reducing speed limits generally, adding more pedestrian crossing lights and thoroughly investigating every fatality.
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Ephraim 10:43 on 2019-03-12 Permalink
Any law that isn’t enforced and/or can’t be enforced isn’t really a law. Want to see if it’s enforceable? Hand the cops a packet of tickets and ask them to write a ticket for EVERY violation of the highway code on the streets of Montreal. I’m willing to bet that by the afternoon every cop in the city is going to be complaining that they have writer’s cramp and that they can’t really do anything else.
We need a much better plan. Changing the signs to lower the limit isn’t a plan. They did this a few years ago and it doesn’t work, it just made commutes longer and traffic worse for longer periods. Go back to the drawing board and come up with a real plan…. my first suggestion, actually hire some people who have degrees in urban development from Europe and put some money into public transit and the traffic light system. And start talking to companies about staggering work days, etc. But changing the speed limit… does SFA.
Meezly 11:36 on 2019-03-12 Permalink
It was quite entertaining to read the social media comments of drivers, who were basically in an uproar and quick to blame cyclists & pedestrians for breaking the law, blame the Plante government for being incompetent and say how utterly stupid this is.
The comments on cbc.ca were more informed, with some pointing out that the reduced speed limit policy had been implemented and studied extensively in Sweden. In combination with better road infrastruture, there is evidence that it has resulted in noticeably fewer fatalities.
Not sure if they did studies on how this may worsen traffic, but what should the city focus more on? Faster traffic or saving lives?
Kevin 12:14 on 2019-03-13 Permalink
Was in Toronto last week where the speed limit on big boulevards is 40 km/h.
Most people drove 50 to 60.
It’s also incredibly amusing to see how drivers think cyclists are zipping around at 40 km/h. That’s professional cyclist speed on a flat track!