A request from the mayor of St. Clair Township to decrease the pace limits of Mandaumin Street, Courtright Line, and Petrolia Line failed to achieve assist in Wyoming on Wednesday.
Jeff Agar requested Lambton County Council to contemplate lowering the pace from 90 kilometres per hour to 80 km/h to maintain according to the pace restrict of an Ontario thoroughfare in his municipality.
“I’ve provincial Freeway 40 working by way of the guts of my municipality and the pace restrict is 80 km/h,” mentioned Agar. “[That’s] 10 km/h decrease than the 90 km/h [speed limit] on our county roads.”
Agar requested for the change to happen no later than October 1, 2025.
His request adopted an enchantment from residents for elevated security measures on the intersections of Courtright Line and Mandaumin Street, and Courtright Line and Kimball Street.
Petrolia Mayor Brad Loosley mentioned he could not assist the movement.
“I feel pace is not going to repair it,” Loosley mentioned. “I feel transferring [the speed limit] down from 90 km/h to 80 km/h… persons are driving that pace anyway. I feel trying on the prospects of cease indicators, or flashing lights, or one thing on the corners could assist as a result of I do not assume individuals will decelerate.”
Brooke-Alvinston Mayor David Ferguson agreed that putting in further cease indicators could also be more practical.
“Maybe the second cease signal may be a simple — it is not a repair — deterrent on the north/south roads the place the accidents are occurring,” mentioned Ferguson.
The county’s Infrastructure and Growth Providers Basic Supervisor Jason Cole mentioned the double cease signal was only in the near past added to the Ontario Site visitors Handbook.
“That is a software that we wish to apply, and have began to use, as a part of the options for intersection controls as an intermediate step to intersections of concern the place we see excessive charges of collisions,” Cole mentioned.
Council defeated Agar’s movement and unanimously supported one to put in second cease indicators on the intersections as a substitute.
County employees have additionally been requested to research using flashing lights.
A name for additional security measures gained momentum after a 19-year-old died in a 3 car collision at Courtright Line and Mandaumin Street on Thanksgiving Monday.
A petition was launched afterward, which has since collected over 2,500 signatures.
