Stretch of road approaching Desert Blume getting speed-limit drop to 50 km/h
By Medicine Hat News on August 24, 2019.
The speed limit on the approach to the county Hamlet of Desert Blume has been reduced one year after the maximum speed on connecting South Boundary Road was raised. Range Road 61A is the Cypress County Road that connects the community south of Medicine Hat to the city-controlled road. This week county councillors approved a request from residents that the speed be lowered to 60 kilometres per hour from 80 after studying the issue. The change – comprising the entire length of the development – took effect on Tuesday. In June 2018, the city municipal works department increased the top rate of travel on the length of S. Boundary Road to 70 kilometres per hour, up from 60, as one of several roadway reviews spurred by public complaints. As it stands now, S. Boundary’s speed limit is 70 km/h from Southridge Drive to a point near the Range Road 61A turnoff, then 50 km/h afterward. Veinerville water Crews are scheduled early next week to begin flushing new water lines connecting Veinerville. Residents of the hamlet are asked to not use water between 4 and 6 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 26. Fire ban Cypress County’s fire ban remains in effect despite wetter weather over the recent week. The restrictions, including bans on barbecues and recreational campfires, came into effect on Aug. 1. Fire restrictions and bans remain in place in a number of rural municipalities in southwest Saskatchewan, including the RMs of Maple Creek, Enterprise, Big Stick and Deer Forks, near the Alberta boundary. 12-11
