York Region could be in for several speed limit changes

Aurora Banner
January 7, 2014
By Sean Pearce

You will have to ease off the gas pedal if York Regional council approves several speed limit changes this month.

Thursday’s committee of the whole will consider a series of speed limit reductions recommended by transportation and community planning commissioner Daniel Kostopoulos.

If approved and adopted by council Jan. 23, the following speed limit adjustments will occur:

• Speed limits of 70 km/h and 80 km/h on Leslie Street from Wellington Street to 1.1 kilometres north of Mulock Drive running through Aurora and Newmarket will drop to 60 km/h;

• Speed limit of 80 km/h on Warden Avenue between Queensville Sideroad and Ravenshoe Road in East Gwillimbury will decrease to 70 km/h;

• The limit of 60 km/h on Leslie from Green Lane to 535 metres north of Green Lane in East Gwillimbury will be reduced to 50 km/h;

• The present speed limit of 70 km/h on Warden from 200 metres north of Doane Road North to 600 metres south of Doane Road South in East Gwillimbury will become 60 km/h;

• The speed limit of 80 km/h on Lloydtown/Aurora Road between Dufferin Street and Keele Street in King Township will be slashed to 60 km/h.

If the changes recommended are approved by council, the regional clerk will also circulate the report to the clerks of the municipalities impacted as well as York Regional Police Chief Eric Jolliffe.