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  • 30 km/h Speed Limit Engagement

    Public and Stakeholder Survey

  • Introduction

    Public and Stakeholder Survey

  • We want your thoughts on reducing speed limits in Community Safety Zones in Vaughan!

    The City of Vaughan continues to advance road safety for all road users, particularly children, older adults and other vulnerable persons. The MoveSmart Mobility Management Strategy reinforces our mandate to advancing transportation and mobility, while enhancing road safety, and supporting sustainable active transportation options like cycling and walking.

    As a commitment to road safety, the City is assessing whether speed limits should be reduced in Community Safety Zones, which include all school zones. The City is considering further enhancing safety measures by reducing speed limits from 40 kilometres per hour to 30 kilometres per hour.

    To help inform this work, the City would like to better understand the community’s perspective on this potential change. The results of this survey will inform whether to amend the City’s existing Speed Limit Policy (PDF) and Community Safety Zone Policy (PDF). 

    What are Community Safety Zones?

    Community Safety Zones are locations where ensuring public safety may require enhanced measures and increased enforcement and fines may be beneficial. The City has developed a Community Safety Zone Policy which outlines criteria and a two-step process for determining whether an area should be designated as a Community Safety Zone. School Zones are the only areas in Vaughan that are automatically designated as a Community Safety Zone. All other areas must meet the Community Safety Zone Policy criteria to qualify including factors such as truck traffic, collision history, number of travel lanes and presence of sidewalks and bus stops.

     

    This survey will be available online until Aug. 5, 2025, and will take approximately 10 minutes to complete. If you are not able to complete the survey online, other options are available, including telephone or paper copies. If you require assistance, please contact Transportation and Fleet Management Services at traffic.services@vaughan.ca.

     

    For more information, please visit vaughan.ca/30km

     

    NOTICE OF COLLECTION:

    Personal information in this form is collected under the authority of the Municipal Act, 2001 and will be used for the purpose of sending occasional information, news and updates related to the City of Vaughan’s 30 km/h Speed Limit Engagement Project. Questions about this collection can be directed to Transportation and Fleet Management Services, at traffic.services@vaughan.ca.

  • For the following question, please use this map to identify your ward.

  • Questions about your street

    In the first set of questions, we will ask you about your street – we’re looking for your opinion about the street that you call ‘'home" in Vaughan.

    To find out whether you live in a Community Safety Zone, please refer to this map: Community Safety Zones

  • The following questions ask about some physical changes to the roadway. The measures mentioned include:

    Flex posts

    Speed cushions

    Pavement markings

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  • An important note on this study:

    When we talk about Community Safety Zones in Vaughan, it is important to highlight that Community Safety Zones on York Region Roads – which includes CSZs on Islington, Weston, Rutherford, Major MacKenzie, Bathurst, Keele and Yonge, are outside the scope of this project. York Region has its own process for identifying and monitoring CSZs. A map of York Regional Roads and CSZs is shown below - these CSZs and any future CSZs on Regional roads are not included in this study.

  • Balancing safety and mobility are key priorities for the City’s MoveSmart Mobility Management Strategy. Speed is a major factor in the severity of collisions, especially for vulnerable road users including children, seniors and people with disabilities.  

    While there are tools to improve safety at any speed, research shows that higher speeds consistently lead to worse safety outcomes. However, lower speeds need to be balanced with the community's mobility needs.

  • The science of safer speeds

    This section contains a few short, quiz-style questions that explain why the City is considering lowering speed limits to 30 km/h in Community Safety Zones. You have the option to skip these questions, as this section is intended for your information only.

  • Answer: Research has shown that pedestrians are 6-8 times more likely to be killed or suffer serious injuries at 50 km/h compared to 30 km/h. The risk of fatal or serious injury is even higher for seniors and children. At 40 km/h, the risk is 2-4 times higher than at 30 km/h.

  • Answer: B - 16 seconds. Most trips in Vaughan would travel through Community Safety Zones for less than 600 metres before transitioning to collector and arterial roadways, limiting the impact to travel times.

  • Answer: 1-2 km/h. Implementing additional design changes, like those noted in Vaughan’s Neighbourhood Traffic Calming Plan, results in further reductions.

  • Your thoughts on speed limits in Vaughan

    Now that you've had a chance to learn more about speed and safety, we’d like to hear from you! The next section asks for your opinions on how speed limits should be set in Community Safety Zones and what factors the City should consider.

  • It has been noted in other municipal jurisdictions with speed limits lowered to 30 km/h that changes in road design, enforcement and awareness are also required to improve compliance with newly reduced speed limits.

    In this section, we will refer to the traffic calming measures indicated below:

    Flex posts

    Speed cushions

    Pavement markings

    Planters

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  • About you

    To ensure our responses meet the needs of the diverse populations of the City of Vaughan, we would like to ask a bit more about you.

  • That is all the questions we have for you today. Please press the "Submit" button below to ensure that your responses are recorded. 

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