Directors have agreed with Lund residents that a reduced speed zone in the community be lengthened.
At its November 27 meeting, Powell River Regional District board voted to send a letter to the ministry of transportation and infrastructure requesting that it move the 30-kilometre-per-hour and 60-kilometre-per-hour speed signs at the intersection of Larson Road 75 metres south on Highway 101.
Roy Blackwell, president of Lund Community Society, attended the regional district’s rural services committee in November. He highlighted concerns about traffic speeds on the highway. He said at the last society meeting in Lund, a delegation of parents appeared who expressed concern and anxiety about the speed of traffic going past the Larson Road intersection. Blackwell said parents and children cross the street at that location to get to the community centre for preschool or playgroup. The school bus also picks up students at that site.
“We’ve made enquiries with the ministry of transport and we are asking for the rural services committee to recommend that our slow to 30 kilometres per hour signs, and resume speed to 60 kilometres per hour signs, be moved another 200 feet south on Highway 101,” Blackwell said. “This will help slow traffic down as it approaches the playground and community centre.”
Rosemary O’Neill, a member of the society, said she’d had email contact with Clint Monson, of the BC ministry of transportation and infrastructure, who indicated that he was onside with the prospect of moving the sign.
Colin Palmer, Electoral Area C director and board chair, asked, if Monson was in agreement with moving the sign, whether he would need the regional district to put in a request. O’Neill said he indicated it would be best if all concerned parties got together and did it as a group.
She said she’d also like to see a school bus sign at that location because students are picked up there.
“My attitude would be that prevention is better than the alternative,” Palmer said.
Discussion ensued about the distance the signs should be moved and it was decided the rural services committee would recommend the board send a letter to the ministry about the matter.
