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MEETING: THE GENERAL PURPOSE AND ADMINISTRATION COMMITTEE
DATE: JANUARY 6, 1986.
REPORT #: WD -3 -86 FILE #: D -31 -9
SUBJECT:
SPEED LIMIT - ENFIELD
RECOMMENDATIONS:
It is respectfully recommended:
1. That this report be received; and,
2. That the speed limit on Enfield Road from 250 metres south of the
9th Concession Road to 200 metres north of the 9th Concession Road,
and on Concession Road 9 from 200 metres west of Enfield Road to 800
metres west of Wotten Road, be posted as 50 kilometres per hour, in
accordance with the Highway Traffic Act for a built up area; and,
3. That the costs of installing the signs be assessed to the Public
Works Maintenance Account for Traffic Signs.
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Report No. WD -3 -86
BACKGROUND AND REPORT:
The Public Works Department has received several requests to reduce the
speed limit within the built up area of Enfield. The present, unposted,
speed limit is 80 kilometres per hour. Durham Regional Police have also
received complaints from residents with respect to speeding vehicles and
several motor vehicle accidents have occurred on Saw Mill Hill as a result
of excessive speed. Durham Regional Police recommend that a change is
warranted.
In accordance with todays standards and criteria, the road surface is
recognized as narrow and somewhat distored and a reduced speed limit would
be in order. The authority to post the area at 50 kilometres per hour comes
from the Highway Traffic Act, Section 82 -16, which states that no person
shall drive a motor vehicle at a greater rate of speed than 50 kilometres
per hour on a highway within a city, town, village, police village, or built
up area.
It is, therefore, recommended that in the built up area of Enfield, the
speed limit be posted at 50 kilometres per hour.
Respectfully submitted,
XAOW
R.G. Dupuis . Eng.,
Director of Public Works.
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December 19, 1985.
JON M. JENKINS
17 CENTRE ST. NORTH
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With ke6eAence to ouA conveAsa,tion on Oc-tobeA 31, 1985
Aegandi ng speeding eomptain,ts in the Vittag e o6 En 6ietd,
P.C. R. Keys has checked the a/Lea o6 this comptain.t
and suggests that the toeation be monitoAed.
Due to the 6ac,t that this is a buitd up aAea, he suggests
a change in -the. maximum speed sign.
16 po,ssibte would you have someone check this aAea and
advise whetheA yours depaA.tment would fleet that a change
is wa)tAan.ted?
With ,thanks,
A /Sg.t. K. GandineA # 1 26
16 Division
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