The Regional Municipality of Durham has announced that all regional roads posted as 40kmh will be co-designated as community safety zones and permit the use of automated speed enforcement (ASE).
“All regional roads throughout Durham Region with speed limits posted at 40kmh will be designated as community safety zones. A community safety zone is an area designated through a by-law passed by a municipal council to identify it as a road segment of higher risk or concern. Certain Highway Traffic Act fines (including speeding) are doubled in community safety zones and many community safety zones are located close to schools and school zones,” said a region statement to Durham Post.
The region said the ASE program works by capturing images of vehicles that exceed the posted limit. The pictures are stored and reviewed by a Provincial Offences Act Officer and, if warranted, a notice of the offence (fine) will be sent to the registered owner of the vehicle within 30 days, with no demerit points issued. Fines are only given to vehicles travelling over the speed limit.
Speed is a contributing factor in approximately one-third of fatal collisions in Canada. Reducing speed is one of the best ways to reduce the frequency and severity of collisions in the Durham Region community. Speed limits are not guidelines – they are laws, the region reminded.
It said the speed limit reduction aims to improve safety for all road users. “Aggressive driving, including speeding, was identified as one of eight emphasis areas in Durham’s Vision Zero Strategic Road Safety Action Plan, which aims to reduce and ultimately eliminate all fatalities and injuries caused by collisions on our road system.”
Road closure in Uxbridge and Pickering
The Regional Municipality oalso announced a road closure on Brock Road (Regional Road 1) in the Township of Uxbridge and the City of Pickering, on September 21 and 22. Unfavourable weather conditions may impact the work schedule.
It will be on Brock Road from north of Ninth Concession Road (Regional Road 5) to Uxbridge Pickering Townline Road in Uxbridge and Pickering.
The purpose is to safely replace a culvert.
Cannington Speed
The region also announced that together with the Township of Brock, it will be installing an area wide 40 kilometre per hour (kmh) posted speed limit in Cannington.
It will be on Cameron Street (Regional Road 12) from 260 metres west of Albert Street to 300 metres east of McRae Street. The Township of Brock’s local roads within the community will also be changed to 40 kmh.
The speed limit reduction signs were scheduled to be installed on September 11.
Lane restrictions
The Regional Municipality announced lane restrictions on Cameron Street West (Regional Road 12) in Cannington from September 16 to October 19.
Lane restrictions will be in place daily on Cameron Street West, from King Street South to Ann Street South, for the safe construction of an accessible drop-off lane in support of development.
Uxbridge restrictions
The Regional Municipality of Durham has advised residents of lane restrictions on Regional Road 8 in the Township of Uxbridge from September 11 to 27.
These affect Regional Road 8, between Owen Road and Concession 6, and are being undertaken to safely complete emergency bank stabilization.
During the day, Regional Road 8 will be reduced to one lane with traffic control on-site. During the night the roadway will be opened to two lanes.
Clarington sidewalk improvement
Clarington has announced that this year, nearly 265 metres of pathways, sidewalks and crosswalks were extended or improved across the municipality – that’s about the length of three football fields.
The improvements included:
- Improving pedestrian connectivity along Church Street, Bowmanville
- Creating a path from the basketball court to the sidewalk at Quinn Drive at Optimist Park, Bowmanville
- Constructing a new sidewalk from Solina Hall to Solina Road on Concession 6
- Relocating a school crossing and adding a new Pedestrian Crossover (PXO) to enhance safety, along with developing new sidewalks on West Side Drive, Bowmanville
- Developing a crossing of the Toyota Trail on Haines Street, Bowmanville
The sidewalk improvement project is just one of the ways municipal staff work hard to improve Clarington’s accessibility and safety. More intersection accessibility improvements and new pedestrian crossovers are currently in construction and expected to wrap up this month, the municipality said.
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There is a document from the province of Ontario called book 12 which is rules and regulations for stoplights, signs speed areas and a formula der. Region is not following this, as they are required to by law. This intersection at fixon road and highway too. The Yellow tered is set at 3 seconds even. Where by the book is supposed to be 4.7. According to their own formula, derm is generating revenue with all these stoplight and speeding cameras, millions and millions of dollars.That’s all this is not about safety.It’s about generating revenue.