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METING: THE GENERAL PURPOSE AND ADMINISTRATION COMMITTEE
DATE: MAY 20, 1986.
REPORT #: WD -44 -86 FILE #:
SLRECT:
SPEED LIMIT ON NASH ROAD FROM TOWNLINE ROAD
(REGIONAL ROAD 55) TO COURTICE ROAD (REGIONAL ROAD 34)
RECOMMENDATIONS:
It is respectfully recommended:
1. That this report be received; and,
2. That the speed limit on Nash Road from Townline Road (Regional Road
55) to Courtice Road (Regional Road 34) be lowered from 60 kilometres
per hour to 50 kilometres per hour, and,
3. That By -law 79 -75, being a by -law to authorize speed limits on
highways under the jurisdiction of the Town of Newcastle, be amended
to reflect the change; and,
4. That the associated costs of changing the signs be charged to the
Public Works Traffic Sign Account, Division 1.
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BACKGROUND:
The Public Works Department has received several requests to reduce the
speed limit on Nash Road from Townline Road to Courtice Road. In January,
1985, GPA Resolution 20 -85 requested that the Director of Public Works
review and report on the feasibility of reducing the speed limit on Nash
Road between Townline Road and Courtice Road from 60 km /h to 50 km /h.
The present condition of Nash Road between Townline Road and Courtice Road
is in a continuing state of repair. The abutting property and surrounding
area is rapidly being developed and the traffic counts on Nash Road are
increasing substantially. At the present time it is extremely difficult and
dangerous to travel this portion of Nash Road at 60 km /h. As well, there
are schools within the area and many pedestrians who must walk on the road's
edge.
In accordance with today's criteria, it would be in order to reduce the
speed limit from 60 km /h to 50 km /h. The Highway Traffic Act which states
that no person shall drive a motor vehicle at a greater rate of speed than
50 km /h on a highway within a city, town, village, police village, or built
up area, provides the authority to sign this section of road accordingly.
By -law 79 -75, being a by -law to authorize speed limits on highways under the
jurisdiction of the Town of Newcastle would require that Schedule "B" which
reads:
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Report No. WD -44 -86
"SCHEDULE V
PART I
GEOGRAPHIC TOWNSHIP OF DARLINGTON
Maximum Rate of Speed - 60 kilometres per hour
COLUMN I COLUMN II COLUMN III
Highway from to
1. Concession Road 3 Regional Road 55 Road Allowance
(Road Allowance & between 21
between Concessions
2 & 3)
.....be amended to read:
1. Concession Road 3 Regional Road 34 Road Allowance
Nash Road (Road between Lots 20/21
Allowance between Holt Road
Concessions 2 & 3.
Public Works staff have discussed this matter with the Region of Durham
Traffic Division and Police Department who concur with these
recommendations.
It is, therefore, respectfully recommended that the speed limit on Nash Road
from Townline road to Courtice Road be reduced to 50 km /h and the by -law be
amended accordingly.
DTG:jco
May 12, 19 86.
( CO1t1101(ATION 0.11 '1111" TOWN OF N - I SY :I'l.:
By -LAW NUMBER: 79-75
Being a By -Law to authorize Speed
Limits on highways under the juris-
diction of the Town of Newcastle.
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WHEREAS Section 82 of the Highway Traffic Act (R.S.O. 1970, Chapter 202)
authorizes the Council of a City,
Town or Village, and the Trustees of a Police
Village, by by -law to prescribe a rate of speed for motor vehicles driven on any
highway or portion of highway under its jurisdiction: law of the
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NOW THEREFORE BE IT ENACTED AND IT IS HEREBY ENACTED as a by-
Town of Newcastle through its Council thereof as follows:
When any highway or portion of highway set out in Schedules A, B, C and U, appended
hereto, is marked in compliance with the regulations under the Highway Tr nffic Act,
the maximum rate of speed thereon shall be the rate of speed prescribed i the
Schedule. Traffic Act
The penalties prov ided in Subsection 16 of Section 82 of the Highway
shall apply to offences against this by -law.
77 -64 and 78 -66 and any other inconsistent by -laws insofar as
By -Laws Nos. 76 -11, sire 1,<'reby
they app ly to 11ig'hw,,ys under the jurisdiction of the Town of Newcastle
repealed.
This by -law shall come into force on the date that it is approved byathe C ectedl
of the Regional Municipality of Durham and when signs to the of
By -Law read a first and second time this 13th day of August 1979
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Mayor
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B -Law read a third time and PASSED this / �.. lq .
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