City charter, prepare for lower speed limits. Implementing April 2021

[vengie]

The speed limits are 30km/h in Airdrie in all residential areas. Its excruciating...

[tonytiger55]

This must have a impact on house prices, community desirability....? I mean would you live in a area where its all 30km? or 50km..?

[Maxt]

Did they worry about what the WHO thought when it came to fluoride?

[finboy]

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write your councilors people ....

Druh is my councillor, and based on the last election (no one losing their seat due to first past the post) I REALLY wouldn’t mind seeing the new provincial government gut the power of our municipal government.

My guess is that 30 will get debated, an expensive consultation which will consult no one will happen, and best case scenario they settle on 40. Police set up a few more speed traps to collect revenue, nothing gets accomplished and millions of dollars are wasted.

[kertejud2]

If you want to make streets safer with signs, they have to be stop signs and not speed signs. Any push to lower speed limits without a corresponding investment in altering design is just pissing into the wind. You won't even need to change the speed limit to make a street safer and people driving slower if it is designed better. There are 50km/h streets where nobody drives that fast, and 30km/h streets where it is easy to go 80+.

It's the laziest way to tackle the problem of street safety, and that's why it doesn't really work. But nobody would support the proper way, so I guess this is what they're left with to keep the concerned parents happy.

[ExtraSlow]

Stop signs are actually really dangerous too. Probably the most dangerous sign ever created.

[firebane]

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Stop signs are actually really dangerous too. Probably the most dangerous sign ever created.

Nobody ever stops at them properly or just rolls through regardless.

[btimbit]

Thanks a lot Ward 7 voters

[npham]

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Stop signs are actually really dangerous too. Probably the most dangerous sign ever created.

"Speed has never killed anyone. Suddenly becoming stationary, that's what gets you..." - Jeremy Clarkson

[kertejud2]

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Stop signs are actually really dangerous too. Probably the most dangerous sign ever created.

Kind of goes with the whole idea that you need to change the design of the street if you want to make it safer, not just put a sign up.

Stop signs aren't great, and tend to be put in high risk intersections anyway. Beg buttons aren't very safe, but they're better than nothing. None actually solve the issue, but they address part of it in the hope it can overcome shortcomings of the road design.

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Nobody ever stops at them properly or just rolls through regardless.

We will just have to have licensing and registration and road testing to ensure people will follow the rules.

[ExtraSlow]

Ever seen a cyclist stop at a stop sign? Those guys are almost as bad as people in minivans or honda fits . . .

[Brent.ff]

I’m excited to be drafting off all the cars going 35.. 60 is hard to sustain

[J-hop]

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We will just have to have licensing and registration and road testing to ensure people will follow the rules.

I don’t think that will really help to be honest. I used to have to do regular driver training for work. I would pass the exam at the end of each course with flying colours, didn’t make an ounce of difference to my driving habits. I just put on my good boy pants for an hour, then promptly tossed them out the window on my way out of the parking lot after

I think part of your post hit the nail on the head. Design roads and speed limits that fit with human nature or fight the inevitably losing battle against it....

[finboy]

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Thanks a lot Ward 7 voters

Thank our wonderful first past the post voting system, druh makes it in time and time again because the vote is split 4 ways. I’ve heard rumours that Brent Alexander is her cousin, and has run in the same ward as her the last 2 elections.

[rage2]

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Thank our wonderful first past the post voting system, druh makes it in time and time again because the vote is split 4 ways. I’ve heard rumours that Brent Alexander is her cousin, and has run in the same ward as her the last 2 elections.

That would be a hilarious and genius move.

[firebane]

As per response from Ward 13 (Diane Colley-Urquhart):

Significant engagement with my residents in Ward 13 would need to occur before I take a hard position on this. My staff will be including this question to get feedback from Citizens"

[mr2mike]

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This must have a impact on house prices, community desirability....? I mean would you live in a area where its all 30km? or 50km..?

Speed bumps for sure! Purposefully would never buy a home on a speed bump route.

[Strider]

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I’m excited to be drafting off all the cars going 35.. 60 is hard to sustain

On the flip side, I'd rather make room for 5-10 seconds while a car to passes me going 50 than have them stalk me or sidle up going 25-30 for a few blocks at a time.

[rage2]

7 of 14 councilors are for reduction. No clue how Nenshi will play this one as he'll be the deciding vote. Nenshi is the one that snuck in the whole school to playground zone transition, and when criticized for it, he threw city engineers under the bus. Regardless, he wants this, so I think we're gonna get it.

[firebane]

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7 of 14 councilors are for reduction. No clue how Nenshi will play this one as he'll be the deciding vote. Nenshi is the one that snuck in the whole school to playground zone transition, and when criticized for it, he threw city engineers under the bus. Regardless, he wants this, so I think we're gonna get it.

Yeah the big purple coward. Yeah right like you knew that shit wasn't going on.