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Poll: Majority of qathet region respondents prefer no speed limit reduction within City of Powell River

65 per cent not interested in change to current limit
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STUDY PLANNED: City staff will issue a report on speeds on Powell River streets. The intention would be for speed limits to remain the same on arterial streets, such as Marine Avenue, but looking at reducing speed limits on side streets.Peak archive photo

The Peak polled 634 readers and asked the question: Should speed limits be reduced throughout City of Powell River?

The poll ran from 1/28/2022 to 2/7/2022. Of the 634 votes, we can determine that 314 are from within the community. The full results are as follows:

Yes 34.39 % local, 34.86 % total    
No 65.29 % local, 65.14 % total    
  Local   Total

Results are based on an online study of readers who are located in Powell River. The margin of error - which measures sample variability - is +/- 3.8%, 19 times out of 20.

The Peak uses a variety of techniques to capture data, detect and prevent fraudulent votes, detect and prevent robots, and filter out non-local and duplicate votes.