Saskatoon city administration will take a year to look further into a controversial framework plan to see what can be done in regards to perhaps lowering speed limits on residential streets. The framework which will cost the city $50 thousand dollars will look at a variety of different aspects of speed limits in neighbourhoods including school zones, playground zones, senior zones and residential speed limits. Jay Magus, Acting Director of Transportation says changes to speed limits on main roads including 22nd Street and 8th Street wouldn’t be the case and that the framework plan will strictly look at neighbourhood streets. Magus says many questions remain with residential speed limits. He says if the speed limit was to be reduced to 30 kph, what would then happen to the existing school zones, would they be taken out and replaced with signs indicating that you’re driving through an area where there is a school and the same goes if 40km an hour was to be established for residential streets, would school zones then be move up to 40 kilometres an hour to match the residential speed limit.
Magus says the matter is expected to return to council in a year’s time when more planning has been completed. City Council voted 6-5 in favour of further developing the framework plan last week.