Walking in Waterloo Region

[ijmorlan]

There is literally a massive push by most road safety advocates to drop the limit in residential areas to 30km/h (although most are willing to compromise on 40km/h). This is not "hardly anybody".

I meant everywhere, not just in residential areas. We could say that there could be a kid wandering around Homer Watson and therefore it should operate at 30km/h; but I hope most people would see that as absurd.

I agree that on non-collector residential streets faster speeds are useless. Arriving at the stop sign 2s earlier doesn’t really help anyone. One problem we have is that newer subdivisions tend to have circulatory streets with houses on them, streets that are significant enough to have bus routes on them. So there are houses, suggesting that slower speeds would be appropriate; but they are designed large and wide, sometimes even with four lanes, and their function is to move significant amounts of traffic around the neighbourhood, not just to access their own houses.