Plan for reduced speed on Wolseley Avenue moves forward at Winnipeg city hall
Change would make speed limit 30 kilometres per hour all year
A plan to permanently lower the speed limit on Wolseley Avenue moved forward at Winnipeg city hall on Tuesday.
City council's public works committee voted Tuesday to make the street a neighbourhood greenway between Raglan Road and Maryland Street, with a 30 kilometre per hour speed limit, all year long.
Wolseley Avenue was already one of the five routes included in the City of Winnipeg's seasonal bike route program. A city report presented to the committee at its Tuesday meeting recommended making Wolseley he first of those five streets to become a permanent greenway.
Greenways are on-street routes designed to move pedestrians and cyclists, as well as vehicles, and often include traffic-calming measures and speed limits of 30 kilometres per hour.
There are currently 19 approved greenways in the city, not all of which have reduced speeds.
The Wolseley plan now moves on to council's executive policy committee next week, before a final vote by full council.