Spotlight on Lachine's Road Safety Awareness Campaign
The borough of Lachine is launching a road safety awareness campaign. This campaign aims to raise residents’ awareness of the need to obey speed limits and to make active transportation 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 will be 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.
The analysis of this data will enable the borough to introduce additional traffic calming measures in a second phase in the fall of 2023 in order to reduce the human impact and promote peace and quiet in the various districts. Actions to increase awareness, such as signs encouraging drivers to slow down, the identification of high-risk areas, reminders of safe habits and the distribution of pamphlets are some of the strategies that will be used. Moreover, concrete, mobilizing measures such as adding road markers and pedestrian crossings will make Lachine residents feel safer.
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.
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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