Velocity limits will drop from 50 km/h to 40 km/h at 17 places throughout the town as a part of the town’s technique to make roads safter
Richmond Hill council accepted one other 18 places the place site visitors calming instruments, together with pace cushions and pedestrian crossovers, might be put in in 2025, to proceed to cut back dashing and enhance security on native roads.
Earlier this yr, site visitors calming measures, together with pace cushions, gateway options, versatile bollards, curb extensions and enhanced pavement markings and signage, had been put in at 17 places throughout the town.
These had been put in as a part of the implementation of the town’s site visitors security and operations technique, which helped enhance compliance to the pace restrict, scale back dashing in neighbourhoods by as much as 22 per cent and reduce site visitors quantity by as much as 17 per cent, in keeping with a Metropolis of Richmond Hill information launch.
In 2025, along with putting in extra site visitors calming measures on the 18 places (three places in every ward), the town may even:
Increase its present annual pole-mounted radar board program, growing the variety of places from three per ward to 5 per ward;
Create safer pedestrian environments by planning for 13 new pedestrian crossovers (with set up in 2025/2026) at key places throughout the town;
Cut back pace limits from 50 km/h to 40 km/h at 17 places throughout the town;
Pilot a boulevard signal program in every ward.
To look at the town’s site visitors security video and study extra concerning the precedence places recognized for site visitors calming, go to RichmondHill.ca/Site visitors.
“I am very pleased with the results we have seen so far from the installation of traffic calming measures in our neighbourhoods this year. With more vehicles travelling at reduced speeds and less traffic using neighbourhood streets as shortcuts, we are definitely heading in the right direction,” said Mayor David West. “We are using measures that are necessary on the streets where families should feel safe and where children can play to ensure that vehicles travel at slower speeds. We are using the right tools in the right places to achieve the desired outcome, which is making our roads safer for Richmond Hill families.”
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Primarily based on public suggestions, the town conducts annual city-wide screening of streets to determine and prioritize areas of concern and implement operational and security enhancements, together with site visitors calming measures.
Precedence site visitors calming places had been chosen utilizing an evidence-based community screening course of that includes an annual evaluation of all accessible quantity, pace, collision knowledge, and pedestrian exercise throughout all the town’s street community.
A variety of key actions had been accomplished in 2024, together with the approval of recent and up to date insurance policies and 86 neighborhood security zone places, in addition to the set up of site visitors calming measures at 17 precedence places. To offer pedestrian connectivity, the town additionally put in six pedestrian crossovers at numerous places.
