Transportation Committee
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Purpose
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Committee Structure
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Meeting Minutes
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Activities
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Background Materials
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Purpose
Mission:
To encourage and support transportation in our neighbourhood that is safe, healthy and efficient for our residents.
Priority Actions:
To encourage and support transportation in our neighbourhood that is safe, healthy and efficient for our residents.
Priority Actions:
- To pursue effective enforcement of all noise by-laws and other relevant laws on all streets in our neighbourhood, includingPortage Avenue.
- To help ensure the safety of all residents, particularly children, as they move about in our neighbourhood.
- To encourage and facilitate healthy modes of transportation in all seasons of the year.
- To help ensure effective, connected routes for cyclists and pedestrians in our neigbourhood.
- To work to discourage the use of our neighbourhood streets as thoroughfares for motorists, particularly getting to and from theMaryland Bridge, and to and from Portage Avenue.
Committee Structure
The Transportation Committee is currently in formation and is looking for volunteers.
Email the Committee chair, John Anderson (janderson19491949@gmail.com) if you are interested in participating on the committee.
Email the Committee chair, John Anderson (janderson19491949@gmail.com) if you are interested in participating on the committee.
Meeting Minutes
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Activities:
The engagement process for The Wolseley to Downtown Walk Bike Project preliminary design options has been completed and we now await the final design proposal, which should be out in October, 2019. We are keenly awaiting it.
Safespeeds
On September 1st, the City of Winnipeg will take over setting all speed limits within the City. In preparation for the changeover, the Public Works department has recommended the continuance of all existing speed limits. On June 25th, the Public Works Committee of Council considered this recommendation. Submissions proposing reduced speed limits were made by a number of groups, including Winnipeg Trails, Bike Winnipeg and Safe Speeds WPG. The Committee chose to accept the recommendation, 4 to 1.
The next step is the Executive Policy Committee meeting on July 9th at 9:00 a.m. Among the members of that Committee is our councillor, Cindy Gilroy.
After that, the proposal goes to City Council on July 18, at 9:30 a.m.
Safe Speeds WPG is a volunteer, grassroots organization that is urging the City to set default speed limits at 30 km/hr for residential roads and 40 km/hr for collector roads, together with a dedication of the $2.5 million in the Road Safety Budget (2019), along with any additional available funding, to support infrastructure for these new default speeds. The Safe Speeds website includes an online petition for Winnipeg residents. It also encourages us to contact our councillor to support this change.
The website safespeedswpg.com will provide information about safe speeds, the petition to support the change, and a letter to your councillor to request the safe speeds.
On September 1st, the City of Winnipeg will take over setting all speed limits within the City. In preparation for the changeover, the Public Works department has recommended the continuance of all existing speed limits. On June 25th, the Public Works Committee of Council considered this recommendation. Submissions proposing reduced speed limits were made by a number of groups, including Winnipeg Trails, Bike Winnipeg and Safe Speeds WPG. The Committee chose to accept the recommendation, 4 to 1.
The next step is the Executive Policy Committee meeting on July 9th at 9:00 a.m. Among the members of that Committee is our councillor, Cindy Gilroy.
After that, the proposal goes to City Council on July 18, at 9:30 a.m.
Safe Speeds WPG is a volunteer, grassroots organization that is urging the City to set default speed limits at 30 km/hr for residential roads and 40 km/hr for collector roads, together with a dedication of the $2.5 million in the Road Safety Budget (2019), along with any additional available funding, to support infrastructure for these new default speeds. The Safe Speeds website includes an online petition for Winnipeg residents. It also encourages us to contact our councillor to support this change.
The website safespeedswpg.com will provide information about safe speeds, the petition to support the change, and a letter to your councillor to request the safe speeds.
Background Materials
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