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OBSERVER QUESNEL - CARIBOO
Father's Day Sunday, June 16
SINCE 1908
Friday, June 14, 2013
VOL. 99 NO. 82
Keep calm and slow down
DANIKA M. HÉBERT Observer Reporter
ing all hours of the night,â€? he said. “Installing a speed bump on Elliott Street Quesnel city council would be the source of has allocated $9,000 for the installation of Ken Coombs, City of Quesnel many complaints from the truckers and local two traffic-calming residents as the bunks devices. and trailers make a lot Every year, the city receives requests from residents for locations of noise going over them.â€? According to the report by to install traffic-calming devices. In the past year, the locations sug- Coombs, the traffic-calming devices, part of the 2013 Capital Works gested included: • Allard Street at two separate lo- Program, are installed “to provide a cations, one near Hawk Street and safe community for the residents of another midway between Abbott Quesnel.â€? Each year, the city reviews these Drive and Hawk Street. • Abbot Drive near Bettcher Street requests to decide which locations are most suited to the traffic-calm• Baker Drive at Harper Avenue ing devices. • Elliott Street at Early Avenue Although Coombs said $9,000 Certain guidelines are used by the city to determine if a specific loca- seems like a lot of money for only tion is suitable for traffic-calming two devices, he explained there are many costs associated with the dedevices. These include the location’s prox- vices. “There is quite a bit of signage reimity to playground and school zones, if a residential street has long quired for the devices,â€? he said. Coombs recommended counstretches without sidewalks or traffic control and if pedestrian safety cil approve the installation of the traffic-calming devices on Allard is a concern. The locations above each fit at Street, one between Abbott Drive least one criteria, mostly causing and Hawk Street and the second on the south side of the Hawk Street concern for pedestrian safety. Although the devices are suit- intersection. Traffic-calming devices differ from able for all locations, director of public works and engineering, Ken speed bumps in several ways. They are wider and are usually Coombs had concerns about inplaced in residential areas, whereas stalling them on Abbott Drive. “The asphalt on Abbott Dr. is speed bumps are mostly utilized in in very poor condition and parking lots. Traffic calming devices also slow should be considered for a major rebuild in the near future,â€? he ex- traffic more effectively than speed bumps, as the narrow structure plained. “Installing a traffic calming device of speed bumps allow vehicles at this point in time would result in to drive over them at fast speeds without affecting the car or passenreplacing it in the near future.â€? Coombs also explained why de- gers. Check futures issues of your vices on Elliott Street could cause Observer for infrastructure more trouble than help. “Elliott Street is used by empty updates happening in the Gold Pan logging trucks extensively and dur- City.
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