While Winnipeg drivers adjust to new lower speed limits around schools, not all zones are slowing down.
The city has posted a limit of 30 km per hour near some schools that include Grade 6 or lower.
"Generally in the morning here there's quite a bit of people speeding by and particularly at lunch time and after school it's crazy – everybody's crossing the street,” Krista Wilson said while dropping her child off at school.
Wilson and other parents who spoke with CTV say the change is for the better.
While the city considers non-regional roads around schools with elementary-age students for the lower limit, in some cases it’s more complicated.
On Antrim Road in North Kildonan, near Bertrun E. Glavin elementary school, drivers don’t have to slow down.
"I'm scared for my kid's life and all the other kids around here, our street is a racetrack,” Tracy Siemens, whose daughter attends the school, told CTV.
Even though Antrim Road is a non-regional road, which could be considered for a lower limit, the city says it can’t make the change “based on the Provincial regulations introduced in 2013.” Furthermore, the city says because Bertrun E. Glavin school and Valley Gardens Middle School school zones overlap, “we were unable to install signs to meet the provincial regulations.”
Late Tuesday afternoon, however, CTV learned the province amended a regulation regarding overlapped school zones in August, 2014. Council approved the bylaw related to reduced speed limits in one month earlier.
The updated provincial regulation states, "in cases where two RRSZ's are within 300 m of each other, one RSSZ may be established."
The city says it will re-evaluate the relevant schools against the amended provincial regulation and an updated list of reduced speed limits in school zones will be brought forward to the appropriate committees of council for the required approvals.
