FAQs

A process for implementation of 40 km/h Area Speed Limits providing an objective procedure for staff to evaluate and implement lower speed limits on the Town’s new and existing local and collector classified roads. 

Instead of reducing speed limits street by street, area speed limits establish a reduced speed limit for an entire neighbourhood.

The 85th percentile speed is the speed at or below which 85 per cent of the drivers will operate with open roads and favorable conditions. This is also referred to as the Operating Speed. 

The total volume of vehicle traffic on a highway or road for a year divided by 365 days. AADT is a useful and simple measurement of how busy a road is.

Collectors are roads that connect local roads and streets with arterial roads. Collectors provide less mobility than arterial roads at lower speeds and for shorter distances. They balance mobility with land access. The posted speed limit on collectors is usually between 40 km/h and 50 km/h.

A local road, is a road in a built environment that has all kinds of properties beside it which can be accessed from the road. Different types of local roads include residential streets, avenues, and alleys. They have the lowest speed limits and capacities in the hierarchy, but have the highest access to property.

A raised area of a roadway, which causes the vertical upward movement of traversing vehicles. The purpose is to cause discomfort for drivers travelling at higher speeds and reduce operating speeds.

Similar to Local Type Road Speed Hump with the exception that it has a flat top section three metres long between the two halves of the Local Speed Hump, with the purpose of limiting the effects on emergency, maintenance, and transit vehicles.