Speed-limit sign aimed to wise up Winnipeg

by all | 23 January 2012 10:50 am

Just south of Winnipeg, a group advocating against photo radar recently installed a large, reflective ‘traffic sign’ next to Highway 75, along a stretch it complains lacks adequate speed-limit signage. Posted on January 9, WiseUpWinnipeg’s A-frame sign prominently featured the area’s speed limit, 60 km/h, but suggested it was “too slow and poorly posted.” “International practices stipulate dual speed-limit signs—median and shoulder—for multi-lane divided roadways such as this,” says Todd Dube, the group’s founder. “At this particular stretch, the city has only one sign, posted more than three times the distance off the road than the maximum—2 m (6.6 ft)—outlined in the Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD), which the city claims to adhere to.” Dube says drivers have complained for years about the stretch, which is heavily enforced with photo radar by the police to catch speeders.  In addition to more signs, his group suggests rezoning the stretch to 70 km/h. City workers removed the A-frame sign the same day it was installed, however, explaining it contravened Manitoba’s Highway Traffic Act

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