Kitchener council approves uniform traffic and parking by-law changes
Posted Mar 8, 2022 01:05:27 PM.
Language matters, especially on official documents.
Kitchener city council is moving ahead to make changes to the language included in documents for previously approved traffic and parking bylaws.
One of the amendments to the the documents' language includes deleting the current definition of “school zone” and replacing it to mean “the areas of a highway abutting the property of a school.”
This includes 150 metres along the highway in either direction beyond the boundary of land used for the purposes of the school.
Along with this came the addition of the definition “neighbourhood bikeways.”
Now, it also is defined as “a shared roadway that has been identified as a preferred cycling route through measures such as sharrows, signage, reduced speed limits, traffic diversion and/or traffic calming.”
Something included in the document that was discussed during the council meeting was the topic of the ASE program, or the “automated speed enforcement” program.
The program, which was previously approved by council, is specific to use in school zones and community safety zones.
However, Aaron McCrimmon-Jones the manager of transportation and planning with the City of Kitchener said the program could be expanded in the future.
“The city is part of a broader group of municipalities working with the MTO and ministry of attorney general, advocating to move ASE enforcement to an ANTS program,” he said.
“That would allow the city to enforce speeding tickets through ASE through our own system, versus requiring a provincial court office which would then allow us to expand the program within more of our own control.”
