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[h=1]Toronto councillors want lower speed limits on some 50 km/h streets[/h]
After the Toronto & East York Community Council voted unanimously to lower speed limits on local residential streets to 30 kilometres per hour from 40 km/h, some members want to go further.
Toronto councillors Janet Davis and Coun. Mary-Margaret McMahon, who also sit on the community council, say the 50 km/h speed limits on some streets should be changed to 30 km/h, but were told their motion could not be voted on as they had to give notice.
Davis said she will move the motion at the next community council meeting in September, when some councillors say it is expected to have unanimous support.
She said there are about 20 of these “leftover” streets in ward 31 alone. where speeds were never lowered through bylaws, request, or traffic planning.
“We’ve had a patchwork approach to speed on our streets,” she said. “This is intended to make it clear to anyone driving on small residential streets that the speed limit is 30 (km/h).”
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