When researching the issue for my presentation, I found several successful strategies for reducing speeding. Lower speed limits help, but only marginally and only when enforced regularly. Stop signs can discourage people from using a street as a speedy bypass, but again it helps if they are enforced once in a while.

Most effective, however, is either physically or visually narrowing the street. Bumpouts with spaces between for parking, trees closer to the curb, or even adding a bike lane can have a huge effect. Think about it - aren’t you inclined to go slower on narrower streets, regardless of the speed limit?

Something to consider.

Jennifer, you make some good points. Thanks for posting as well. Any help is useful to change the mindset of the Town. Where some people want lower speed limits, they seem to worry more about how it affects the speeders vs the people who obey the law. With Yates, its already a narrow street and with parking on one side, it gets even more narrow causing headaches with the traffic. Happy Canada Day - Mike

Thanks for chatting with me earlier on today at the fairgrounds. All the best to you and your family!

Ryan, it was great to meet you and your family as well. This years Canada Day celebrations were fantastic and its always good to catch up with you. When you want to change peoples habits its either the carrot or stick. The carrot doesnt seem to work as well, so maybe time to use the stick? - Mike

Blogs are a much easier way of getting the message out.

I hope everything is going well with your new baby.

Im really tired of hearing our councillor complain about all the hard work they have to do and they cant keep up with it all. I saw the same council meeting you did, and Brian Penman is one of the worst ones at getting back to emails or phone calls, so it begs the question, what the HECK is he really doing. Are you going to be running again the nexxt time?

If they cant handle the workload, book off and retire and lets someone who wants to do the job do it.

Im tired of hearing promises and having them not deliver on them. Im also a bit disappointed at one of the other guys Tony Lambert who ran back then. Hes been sending out his so called reports but theyve all been basically the same. I’ll have to send him an email on this, but Mike can you confirm if a Hawthorne Village Neighbourhood Watch has been set up? I havent heard of it and when I called the Halton Chapter last week, nothing was set up.

What do you think?

Hi Ryan, thanks for your comments and the compliments. As for the Neighbourhood watch program for Hawthorne Village, I am unaware of one being set up at this time. Best person to ask would be Tony. - Mike

We’re actually moving into Hawthorne Village this summer. My wife and I are both artists, so we were thrilled to hear this about HVPS when we first read your post awhile back.

Our son Brody who’s 5 will be attending HVPS in SK this Fall, so I guess we’ll get to experience the school first-hand as well. We’re looking forward to it.

If anyone has any more specific info of some of the activities or examples of little things that make HVPS such a great school, I’d love to hear them! Please post them back to this blog entry.

Dave