Comment 73689

By mystoneycreek (registered) - website | Posted February 03, 2012 at 07:18:00

I'm compelled to contribute this from the Ward 3 Residents' Association Facebook group discussion of this very topic:

As for slowing traffic down - it is a stupid idea. The children should be in school not on the street when school is operating. Before school and after school there are traffic jams because of students being picked up and let out, so there is no need for signage. It would slow cars down needlessly, causing more air pollution, thereby increasing the asthma and cancer rate. Do you really want that?

I think you have to weigh the risks involved in doing something like slowing the traffic down, when there are factors already lowering the speed limit. Compare the risk of the accident which you described with the risks of increasing asthma and cancer rates as well as the increase in road rage with the risk of such an accident occurring. By lowering the speed limit, you actually tempt dummies to race through and create stress in drivers who will eventually behave like the rivers in Toronto.

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