Spotlight on Lachine's Road Safety Awareness Campaign
The road safety awareness campaign is in full swing in Lachine. Now in its second year, the campaign aims to encourage the public to obey speed limits and make active travel safer.
Road safety is everyone’s business
Whether travelling by car, bicycle or on foot, everyone must adapt their behaviour for their own safety and that of others. The objective of this campaign is to make road users aware of safety and caution, especially around playgrounds, school zones, parks and sports facilities.
The focus is on getting motorists to obey the speed limit, and cyclists and pedestrians to obey the signs, so that they can enjoy active transportation with full peace of mind and contribute to making Lachine an inspiring and friendly place to live.
A major technological investment
For the first phase of this road safety awareness campaign, state-of-the-art tools are being used to provide input for planning and implementing incentive actions. In the fall of 2022, the borough acquired twenty mobile radar speed signs to observe motorists’ habits. These radars are installed at specific points and are relocated throughout the territory on a regular basis in order to obtain a true and accurate picture of the situation.
This project represents a major investment by the borough, made possible by the financial assistance program of the Fonds de la sécurité routière of the Ministère des Transports et de la Mobilité durable.
A new look at safety in school zones
To encourage youngsters to keep their wits about them when they’re out and about, the collaborative “Chanter les fleurs” project, dreamed up by Graffiti program artists Melissa Del Pinto and Nicolas Oligny, was launched in the summer of 2024. To accompany walkers on their way, snippets of poetry are painted along their routes, in which colourful flowers and fantastic plants inspired by local urban flora come to life. The illustrations depict shoreline waves and blowing wind. Together, these elements create a symbolic, almost imaginary impression of what nature has to offer us.
Take part in the campaign!
Help spread our safety message The Borough invites you to support its campaign by posting a “Prudence, m’as-tu vu?” (“Careful, did you see me?”) campaign sign on your property or balcony.
To take part, simply go to the Accès Montréal office in Lachine or the Bibliothèque Saul-Bellow and Saint-Pierre during regular library hours and ask for your sign. We will give you one free of charge, along with a metal stand. It couldn’t be easier!
Highlights
Since 2019, the Borough of Lachine has been using a traffic and speed management strategy based on the Vision Zero approach adopted by Ville de Montréal. Through concrete actions, Lachine is committed to reducing the number of deaths or serious injuries on its roads to zero.
The speed limit is set at 30 km/hr on residential streets and 50 km/hr in industrial sectors. Physical traffic calming measures are implemented annually in problem or high-risk areas, as well as in areas of high pedestrian presence:
- Construction of curb extensions as well as street and intersection reconfigurations
- Installation of speed humps
- Change of traffic direction
- Adding road markers in the middle of pedestrian crossings
- Adding bollards and road markers in problem areas
- Adding no-parking signs in the sight triangle at intersections.
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