Victoria will start by extending to a full day the 30 km/h zone around some schools and parks
New speed-limit signs will start appearing on side streets in Victoria next spring, after the city adopted a new default speed limit of 30 km/h on neighbourhood roads.Where the new signs are erected first will be based on factors such as collision history, the presence of vulnerable populations, parks, schools, care facilities and community centres.Municipal councils have the authority to set speed limits on roads under their jurisdiction.
The initiative was inspired by Vision Zero, created in Europe in the 1990s, which aims to reduce fatalities through better road design, speed reduction and other measures. The report noted collisions with vulnerable road users at 30 km/h or less correlate with a 10 per cent probability of death, compared with a 30 per cent probability of death at 40 km/h or 85 per cent at 50 km/h.
Two types of streets are being considered for speed evaluation: Type A streets, which don’t have a continuous yellow centre line, and nine Type B corridors, which do.
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