Nanaimo elementary school zone speed reduction plan advancing

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Jamie Rose, the City’s transportation manager, told a governance and priorities committee meeting this week that this school zone speed reduction plan is the first of two or three phases.

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Proposed school zone speed reductions around Frank J. Ney Elementary School. A raised sidewalk is proposed on Williamson Rd. at Walley Creek Trail. (Image Credit: City of Nanaimo)

Rose said the City examined widened speed limit reductions around Rock City, Departure Bay, Cilaire, and Rutherford schools, but stated the location of those schools presented challenges.

“Not only are they major roads, but they are higher functioning major roads and so at this point in time we don’t have an immediate plan for them,” Rose told the committee.

In addition, the committee, made up of Nanaimo City Council, is also recommending the approval of over $1.1 million from this year’s Active Transportation Unallocated fund.

The fund will primarily be used to complement traffic calming measures such as raised crosswalks and/or speed humps at Syuw ̓én ̓ct, Fairview, Frank J. Ney, Brechin, and Park Ave. schools.

“A lot of them did coincide with areas where we were already hearing concerns about speeding and traffic calming issues and so we’re sort of taking that opportunity to address two problems at one time,” Rose said.

The meeting was told the fund has historically been at around $600,000 in recent years.

At Monday’s governance and priorities committee meeting, a South End Community Association board member successfully lobbied for a proposed variance to draft school zone speed limit reductions.

Advocate Calen May-Tobin spoke to the importance of extending a 40 kilometres per hour speed limit on Old Victoria Rd. to just beyond the Clay Tree Enterprises building.

Clay Tree Enterprises, located at 838 Old Victoria Rd., works with neurodiverse clients.

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