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Port Hawkesbury Makes Safety Improvements around Community Park

Sep 13, 2019 | Local News

During the summer months, the Town of Port Hawkesbury moved forward on a number of safety improvements around their community park.

At September’s monthly council meeting, Terry Doyle, the town’s CAO, highlighted how council felt it was essential to move the crosswalk from its present location, which is not functional, to a location where children and parents actually walk.

To do that they had to deal with a line of sight issue; the town had to restrict parking by placing barriers on the parking lot at the old rink site to move vehicles back from the road, and they also installed barriers on the other side so cars couldn’t park in front of the gate.

Doyle advised the town also did two things to reduce the speed on the street; first, they changed the speed limit on the road from 60 km/h to a 30 km/h zone; second, the town installed speed bumps at locations they felt were appropriate to slow down traffic before they come to the location where they want to put the new crosswalk.

One issue with the speed bumps that was raised by concerned citizens was the issue of vehicles swerving around the speed bumps, as it is possible to drive around them if there is no other vehicle coming – but Doyle explained it’s an issue that has been patrolled by the RCMP.

When the location of the crosswalk is determined, that will be the location for the town’s third rainbow crosswalk.


Canadian Radio Awards: 989 XFM Small Market Station of The Year

Canadian Radio Awards: 989 XFM Small Market Station of The Year