It seems like another decade, but it has only been a couple of months since Edmonton City Council debated and approved the new 40 km/h speed limit for all residential areas.

Covid-19 took hold of our lives the very week councillors made that historic decision. The traffic on our streets has all but evaporated. People can now roam their neighbourhoods (socially-distanced) at their leisure having to worry only about the occasional vehicle. The pandemic has brought families out to enjoy their streets in a way they never felt safe doing before.
Still, I think it’s important to document where individual councillors stood on the residential speed issue in March 2020.
Continue reading “Residential speeds. How your councillors voted”