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City may lower speed around schools, playgrounds
$ w% `, r. N# ]8 D( wLast updated Jan 10 2006 04:24 PM MST
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City council is considering putting 30-kilometre-an-hour zones around some schools, after pressure from parents.
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Administration officials have long argued that there is no evidence school speed zones reduce the danger for children.
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"This is simply adding it to our set of solutions," Rick Millican, general manager of transportation, said. "Council is not saying if they approve it, put a school zone everywhere someone wants on.
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0 ?: j7 W% g3 s! I' lThe city hasn't used reduced speed limits around schools for more than 20 years.7 Q- C4 L/ _4 R( i. e( |7 H8 k
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Patricia Grell, with the Woodcroft area school council, says every school and playground should have lower speed limits.. K# F, f: U& b" M% [
# {* M4 o Z! X: a) l"People are in a hurry, people are stressed out, they forget the speed limit and our children are very at risk when they are going to these places," she said.
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! P2 i4 c) P( h. vCouncil will vote on the policy change next week. |
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