Impact of traffic speed on pedestrian safety is a hot topic in Kingscross Estates. Staff is on track to present a recommendation to Council in late winter (i.e. April 2015) on traffic calming. There is however, a change in steps leading up to that recommendation; there will not be a confidential survey conducted by Staff to get a reading on the community’s level of support or lack thereof for speed humps. The survey step has been abandoned as it would not contribute to the decision making; as the last round of data collection (volume of traffic and speed) showed that the warrants for speed humps were not met, a confidential survey was not going to drive a decision about speed humps. The forthcoming report will include results of traffic monitoring conducted since the last report.
As I know that people have very strong feelings on both sides of the issue I feel particularly bad about having to indicate that there is a change in the process. But, when I was reviewing with Staff the plan and realized that the survey was not going to be productive I agreed that we needed to drop it.
Hello Debbie;
Seeing your post regarding the speed hump issue for Kingscross, could you kindly elaborate on the new process for the evaluation?
Your feedback would be appreciated.
Take care;
David Long
Hello David, The only change in process is that there will NOT be a confidential survey administered by Township Staff; it had been the plan to issue a questionnaire asking residents of Kingscross Estates whether they did or did not support installation of speed humps. The plan had been that the results of the survey would be included in the Staff report along with the statistics on traffic volume and traffic speed and the options for traffic calming such as speed humps, stop signs.