Paul Doroshenko on the Mike Smyth Show: Building pipelines, Lowering residential speed limits, & Rising car prices!

Traffic lawyer Paul Doroshenko comes on to unpack the push to lower residential speed limits.

Vancouver wants to hit the brakes. Literally. City Council considering dropping speed limits to 30km an hour on all neighbourhood streets, possibly lowering limits on some other major streets, too. They say it’s about safety, of course. Opponents say it’s unnecessary.

Pete Fry is right, people are not driving at 50km an hour because it would be just completely feel unsafe as a driver. So, the government, the provincial government, the the city can come along and can change the speed limit and it’s probably not going to affect anybody, but there’s no enforcement, as you pointed out, like there’s zero enforcement on side streets. There’s very little traffic enforcement in Vancouver generally. And on these side streets, go ahead–make it 30 on some of them and it’s not going to change any behaviour because most of the people are not driving at 50km an hour anyway.

Listen to Paul Doroshenko on the Mike Smyth Show discussing lowering residential speed limits here.