From Burlington's Transport Manager Chris King
I asked Chris about two major things. One was a concern brought to me by a resident that was worried about traffic calming measures interfering with emergency response. Another was whether or not we can repurpose the cameras from our automated speed enforcement program.
Good Morning Rowen.
Apologies for the delayed response and it was great meeting you as well.
Impacts to emergency services are well understood within the traffic engineering field, and we work closely with Fire, EMS, and Police to, as best as possible, mitigate potential effects.
Traffic calming measures are generally not installed on priority emergency response routes, such as roads in close proximity to emergency service stations or those identified as key response corridors. There are also limitations to where traffic calming can be applied based on the road type (i.e. we would not install speed cushions on an arterial road, or a road with a…
Thank you for this update. I had intended to go but life got in the way. I certainly agree with your statement that « they had an agenda ». The mayor always does and public consultations are simply good optics opportunities. I came to this conclusion during the community meetings when the tree bylaw was being created. Public input was simply a formality. It had already been decided we were going to be told what we could do in our own backyards.