The speed limit on city streets will soon be dropping in two Montreal boroughs.
As of Monday the speed limit on most streets in Outremont will be 30 km/h on almost every street. The only exceptions will be Rockland Ave, Van Horne Ave, and Cote Ste. Catherine St.
Borough councillors passed a bylaw on Sept. 2 to drop the speed limit, and the ruling comes into effect on Monday Dec. 1.
“We've had people asking us for quite a while now,” said Borough Mayor Marie Cinq-Mars, adding that will not only make things safer, but also reduce pollution.
“Thousands of people transit back and forth in our borough day and night and they go very fast because they're in a rush to go back home, they're in a rush to go in centre city to work,” she said.
Meanwhile the Southwest borough wishes to do the same thing.
Borough Mayor Benoit Dorais introduced a motion on Monday to reduce speed limits to 30 km/h and it was passed unanimously.
“Families want safer streets,” said Dorais, adding that it will make it safer for children to walk to school.
The Southwest borough has to submit its plan to Transport Quebec before it can be implemented, but it expects this to happen in the weeks to come.
Both boroughs say the goal is to make city streets safer for pedestrians and cyclists, something that is crucial in a city where drivers hit three pedestrians each day.
