This lowering speed limit #### is a waste of everyone's time, frankly.
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Originally Posted by Hes
In Garrison Green the city installed a bunch of traffic calming measures. It has for sure helped. Forand Street Leaving the community is essentially a drag race though. We have a very high density of kids out and about here.
I had someone come look at my listed house. One of the reasons they stated for not wanting to make an offer is that there was too many traffic calming measures.. LOL.
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do have too many additional traffic calming measures, and the City of Calgary has an unhealthy obsession with Playground Zones. Our community is already designed in such a way (narrow streets, parking along both sides in many cases) that preclude going faster than 50 for most of it. Look at the recommendations from civil engineers about reducing speeds in residential areas and you'll routinely see guidance to reduce street width as a means of slowing traffic; our community is literally designed with these recommendations taken into account. Compare this with a newer community like Crestmont where you could fit a four-lane road along their main drag and it looks like you could comfortably do 70 through it.
Forand is the main ingress/egress of the community and is a 50 zone until you hit the playground zone past the alley. However, one thing I notice is that the people who tend to really fly down that road are people who
live in the community and are leaving to go to work in the morning, particularly when they're leaving the 30 KM/H zone (I live outside of the 30 zone so I get to watch the show as I'm waiting to turn). Maybe forcing people to go slower than they know is a reasonable speed causes them to go faster to make up time elsewhere when the risk of higher fines is reduced. I'm not convinced reducing the entire community's speed limit to something people clearly already see as unreasonable is the right answer. I'd prefer to see continued improvements in pedestrian right-of-ways; the new LED crosswalk signage at Forand near ATCO is bright as hell... provided people would push the friggin' button like they're supposed to.
Personally, I see the bigger problem being the volume of people who gleefully run the stop sign on Peacekeepers Dr @ Forand St, the 'deer crossing' of ATCO employees who think stepping off a grassy boulevard 20 metres from the crosswalk gives them right-of-way, etc. I've spotted way too many near misses from people flying out onto Forand from the Peacekeepers Dr. stop sign.