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City may lower speed around schools, playgrounds
! Q! {% g5 o2 m5 U6 M @( }6 T) ]" NLast 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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5 {; c$ H) B) e" @1 jAdministration 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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: u# @9 R) t1 s0 h9 r) MThe city hasn't used reduced speed limits around schools for more than 20 years.1 [8 I# d1 P+ T
7 N1 J7 c+ g0 A" JPatricia Grell, with the Woodcroft area school council, says every school and playground should have lower speed limits.
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"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., ?( D5 _2 I4 G2 g5 G/ `
" v" p1 g$ ~. m) e8 PCouncil will vote on the policy change next week. |
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