“At night, when everything else is quiet, you can hear them squealing their tires and speeding and I have heard the cops chasing them and they were speeding through town,” says Pennington.
Christy Starling informed CHAT News she doesn’t like parking her vehicle along the roadway outside her home.
“My boyfriend’s truck, his mirror got taken out, it was parked on the street. This lady across the street, the same thing hit and run. And then a person down the street here got her car totaled and waited months so this street is bad. I don’t even know why I park on this street,” says Starling.
To make the roadway much safer, the city is executing traffic soothing procedures. A report provided to council Monday night stating publishing lower speeds or increased enforcement won’t suffice to produce a safe environment.
So as part of a pilot task, the City of Medicine Hat will set up 2 mini roundabouts along Eighth Street.
“It’s not intended to slow traffic to a crawl but to actually slow traffic down. We don’t have an overwhelming problem, not 100 per cent of people driving through these areas speed, we’ve got about 15 per cent that do,” says Pat Bohan, director of city possessions.
Speeding is likewise a problem in a number of other locations around Medicine Hat consisting of downtown and Ranchlands.
Over the next year the city prepares to present more traffic soothing procedures consisting of bigger walkways, broadened pedestrian crossings, and speed bulges along Ranchlands Boulevard.
Officials state they wish to discover a balance in between keeping safety and keeping traffic streaming.
“It does serve the community in a positive way around speeding by also the intersecting traffic that has stop signs today. They won’t need the stop sign, just yield and we are hoping it will demonstrate that we can improve the flow of traffic in both directions,” describes Bohan.
The 2 mini roundabouts are presently in the style stage and setup is anticipated next year.
The city says as traffic soothing procedures are fairly brand-new to Medicine Hat, the pilot task will be kept an eye on prior to extra setups are thought about.
