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#1421 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 29 March 2023 - 05:01 AM

Quadra-Hillside first to get reduced speed-limit signs

 

Signs will be unveiled in coming weeks to reflect the adoption of a default speed limit of 30 km/h on neighbourhood roads
 
 
 
 
“Victoria is one of only a handful of Canadian municipalities and the first in the capital region to reduce speed limits on all local streets to 30 km/h,” said Mayor Marianne Alto. “This effort will be supported with ongoing infrastructure investments like speed humps and other traffic calming measures.”
 

Saanich will follow suit with lower speed limits on nine traffic corridors this spring. Mayor Dean Murdock said signage should start appearing this spring. The speed limit will mostly drop to 40 km/h on the nine corridors, with a few stretches of 25 km/h or 30 km/h.

 

The first phase of the Saanich program will target rural roads and that is expected to be complete by the fall.

 

The first to be targeted are nine of what Saanich calls Type B streets — those with a continuous yellow centre line.

 

At the top of the list are Sayward Road to Cadboro Bay Road, Cedar Hill Cross Road, Harriet Road from Gorge Road West to McKenzie Avenue, Tillicum Road, Gorge Road West, Prospect Lake Road, Old West Saanich Road and Oldfield Road, West Saanich Road and Emily Carr Drive.


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#1422 Mike K.

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Posted 29 March 2023 - 05:25 AM

Nobody has said yet what the Saanich speed limits will be.

Anyway, more suburbanization is coming to urban Victoria, with further street calming. The suburbs design their streets for slow speeds, Victoria has to reengineer them for slow speeds.

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#1423 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 29 March 2023 - 05:28 AM

Saanich has a map proposal.

Victoria could just dead end many of their grid streets to calm them. So that closes them to all but local traffic. Most that live on them would like that.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 29 March 2023 - 05:33 AM.


#1424 Nparker

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Posted 29 March 2023 - 05:35 AM

More tax dollars wasted re-engineering local roads for ideological rather than practical reasons.
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Posted 29 March 2023 - 06:22 AM

It’s suburban road design on steroids!

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Posted 29 March 2023 - 08:31 AM

I hope it backfires spectacularly for them.  


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Posted 29 March 2023 - 11:38 AM

You think they’ll reverse the idea?

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Posted 29 March 2023 - 11:44 AM

Victoria could just dead end many of their grid streets to calm them. So that closes them to all but local traffic. Most that live on them would like that.

 



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Posted 29 March 2023 - 11:54 AM

...Victoria could just dead end many of their grid streets to calm them. So that closes them to all but local traffic. Most that live on them would like that.

What an outrageously terrible idea this would be, which means the CoV will probably implement it. City streets belong to more than just those who live on them.


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Posted 29 March 2023 - 11:59 AM

What an outrageously terrible idea this would be, which means the CoV will probably implement it. City streets belong to more than just those who live on them.

 

But not all streets should be used as busy thoroughfares (for cars), when a better option is a block or two over.  


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#1431 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 29 March 2023 - 12:07 PM

If your friend lives on Bond Street and you live downtown or north of downtown, do you really need 15 different options to get to it to visit?

 

 

We do not build residential subdivisions like this grid anymore.  These were made for when most people walked or rode a horse.


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Posted 29 March 2023 - 12:44 PM

But not all streets should be used as busy thoroughfares (for cars), when a better option is a block or two over.  

If some streets aren't available for me to use, then I shouldn't have to pay for their maintenance.



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Posted 29 March 2023 - 12:46 PM

If some streets aren't available for me to use, then I shouldn't have to pay for their maintenance.

 

You can still use every street.  It just might be less useful.  Do opt out of paying for today's dead end streets?

 

 

^ Two of the cutest little dead-end streets, in my map.  Point Street and Clover Avenue.


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#1434 Nparker

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Posted 29 March 2023 - 01:40 PM

If currently through streets are ostensibly turned into private driveways, then I see no reason why I should pay for them. 



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Posted 29 March 2023 - 02:04 PM

Oh man, Saanich has created a three-way stop on Blenkinsop at Mt. Douglas. The result, chaos. I got caught up in that mess today. The backed up traffic was ~20 cars deep, maybe more.

 

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Posted 29 March 2023 - 02:29 PM

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Posted 29 March 2023 - 02:30 PM

You can thank the activists on Saanich council...  


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#1438 Mike K.

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Posted 29 March 2023 - 02:40 PM

That's nuuuuuuuts!

 

What an epic disaster. That's 1.1 kilometres long!


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Posted 29 March 2023 - 02:42 PM

You can thank the activists on Saanich council...  

Could that possibly be Bondaroff with the few conversations I’ve had with him he isn’t someone I’d ever vote for . I think he has aspirations of provincial politics. He pushes hard to get name recognition. 
 


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Posted 29 March 2023 - 03:24 PM

I got some emails from that Bondaroff character a few months ago. I don't even live in Saanich! No idea how he got my email. 



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