Dear Editor:
An open letter to the council of Centre Wellington.
We live in a beautiful open area of Centre Wellington featuring large, flat fields and open areas with wide, straight stretches of road. Great avenues to get to work and school.
Recently we became curious about pressure treated posts planted all along Side road 20 from Jones Baseline to East/West Garafraxa Townline. Before long we realized that town council, in their infinite wisdom, decided it was necessary to drop a proper speed limit of 80km/h to 60km/h for that entire stretch.
I wanted to give benefit to doubt by inquiring why this was felt necessary and received a report from some engineer hired by the town. There appear to be 24 sections of road in the township that are seeing speed limit reductions.
Why? Because of accidents? Because there are a lot of people living there? No, this is due to some speeding at 15km/h over the posted limit. Really? In his response was the following: “the 60 km/h limit should be maintained on Side road 20 from Jones Baseline to East-West Garafraxa Townline to encourage consistent driving behavior.” Really?
This stretch of Side road 20 has less than 20 homes or driveways in an 11km strech. If there is to be a change to the posted limit at all, it should be changed to 90km/h. You will solve your speeding problem.
Chris Feenstra,
Belwood