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Originally Posted by Flames0910
Most residential streets are unsigned and my understanding is that changing the limits wouldn't mean putting up a bunch of new signs. The notice of motion, if you read it, even talks about the need to budget for short and medium term projects that would update residential street designs to reflect the new limit. And Gian-Carlo Carra has talked about the need for a "generational" redesign of residential streets. It's not like the city is going to pronounce new limits and leave it at that.
How is the city supposed to have developers build slower streets if the current legal limit tells the developer to design for 50km/h?
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The legal limit of an unsigned road has nothing to do with city of Calgary residential street design. Road width right now is set by fire department requirements. You will need to add signage to every collector road in the city that will still be 50.
My point is that you don’t need to change the legal speed limit. Do all of the traffic calming and design standards you need in key areas you want to reduce speed. This should be done based on accident statistics. No stats have been released on the number of above 30km/h collisions on non collector residential streets. We don’t even know what the prize is here and yet we are willing to spend 150milliom or so in people’s/businesses time each year to do it.