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City of Pickering January 2003
Safer Streets Traffic Management Strategy
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intersections appear to have much less of an effect on the maintenance equipment as it
can generally ride up and over the traffic calming measures.
Specific comments respecting the maintenance of the traffic calmed areas from our Roads
Section are provided as follows:
“The humps do not hinder the actual plowing operation but having to slow down
certainly prolongs the operation.”;
“Snow plowing is very difficult in the vicinity of the forts as the plow has to swing out
around the curb and by the time it turns back in, it leaves a substantial area not
plowed. The pickup truck with plow must clean up.”; and
Street sweeping next to the forts is impossible.”;
The Roads maintenance staff finds that the traffic calming measures have definitely
resulted in speed reductions and reduced traffic volumes. They note, however, that the
time delays, snowplowing problems, etc. they have experienced is something that can be
accommodated if the measures continue to reduce speeds and make the roads safer.
6.3.9 Impact on City Services
Comments respecting related impacts on City provided services have also been requested
of the waste management contractor Miller Waste Systems. At the time of the printing of
this document no comments were received.
6.3.10 Surveys
During the development stages of this document as many residents as possible from the
traffic calmed pilot project areas were visited to participate in a non-biased questionnaire.
The various responses provided by the residents greatly assisted in the final analysis of
each of the Pilot Projects and form the impact details as noted earlier. A summary of the
questionnaire results for each traffic calmed area is provided in Appendix A.
Emergency and City service agencies such as Fire, Police, Roads and Transit were also
contacted for comment on the effects of the existing traffic calming pilot projects on their
operations. Requests were also made for additional comments respecting a long-term
plan to implement additional traffic calming measures on other streets in the City. The
responses from each of the identified Emergency and City service agencies are referenced
above and also included in Appendix B.
6.4 ISSUES AFFECTING TRAFFIC CALMING
Much more needs to be considered when developing a traffic calming plan than the reduction in
vehicle travel speeds, volumes, conflicts and the resulting potential increase in neighbourhood
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