Cypress County considering reducing speed limits in hamlets
By Medicine Hat News on September 18, 2020.
Cypress County council will consider slowing down the pace of traffic in its hamlets next month with new speed limits in the residential areas. A survey done since June found that two-thirds to three-quarters of respondents from each hamlet favoured lowering the unposted, general speed limit from 50 kilometres per hour to 40. This week county council approved first reading of a bylaw to reduce speed limits and put up signs denoting the change. That would occur throughout Desert Blume, Hilda, Irvine, Schuler, Suffield and Walsh. Some major roads in Dunmore, like the Eagle Butte Road and portions of Second Avenue, would remain at their current speed limit of 60 km/h, but elsewhere the blanket speed allowable would be reduced. Limits in Veinerville, currently 30 km/h, would be unchanged. Limits on county-maintained highways or range roads and township roads outside corporate limits of hamlets would not be changed. If approved at an upcoming meeting of council, the change would take effect immediately. 9-8
