When we get out and meet with residents across Ward 6, the number one issue we continue to hear concerns traffic safety. To respond to this issue, we challenged our Transportation and Works Department to make some meaningful changes to several of our secondary streets. They responded with a plan to upgrade multiple local streets in the Ward.
Edge Lines & Centre Lines
We use pavement markings to encourage average drivers to slow down. Edge lines visually narrow the road. Centre lines prompt drivers to stay on the right side of the road — requiring slower speeds. Edge lines and centre lines are a quick to implement and inexpensive measure that has been shown to reduce speeds and speeding by about five to ten percent.
Recent & Upcoming Projects
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Completed Street Markings
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Speed Cushions
Speed cushions (or speed humps) are raised sections of pavement designed to slow down traffic. Speed cushions are designed to prevent excess speed while allowing more normal speeds. This is because speed cushions are wider than parking lot speed bumps and speed cushions have more gentle slopes. Speed cushions also have gaps to allow wide vehicles like buses and fire trucks to pass more quickly while still slowing smaller vehicles.
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Pedestrian Crossovers
Any marked location where pedestrians cross the road can be called a crosswalk. However, the City of Mississauga calls special pedestrian crossings added on sections of road between intersections — ‘crossovers’. In Mississauga, pedestrian crossovers have white and black, person-crossing signs by each curb. Some crossovers also have on-demand flashing lights, overhead signs and raised pavement. On busier streets, we use signalized crossovers. With these, pedestrians push a button to cross and standard traffic signal lights turn from green to red.
We added a signalized pedestrian crossover with bike rider over on Rathburn Road at Sawgrass Park and signed crossovers are planned at Bristol Road at the Credit River and White Clover Way at Sandford Farm Park.
Speed Signs
In addition to these street markings, we have continued to advocate for other traffic safety measures such as our rotating interactive digital speed sign program. Such a sign was recently installed on Creditview Road and the signs will be coming to Duval Drive and White Clover Way in the not-too-distant future.
Park Project Map
For park projects: https://joehorneck.com/park-projects/
We have had many requests for crossovers, speed cushions and all-way stops. Typically, we study whether additional traffic calming measures meet our requirements at each requested location. Sometimes, the requirements are not met and we don’t proceed. However, we hope you see from this list that we are working hard to make the streets of Ward 6 safer. The best news is that we were successful in getting City Staff and Council to increase traffic calming funding so that we can do even more going forward. Please contact our office if you feel a location on our Ward is in need of review.
