Speed cameras, roundabouts and 'road diets' part of plan to eliminate Windsor road deaths, injuries
CBC
Windsor is on the verge of launching an ambitious plan to eliminate all deaths and major injuries on its roads.
To get there, the city needs to install speed cameras, lower speed limits and create new policies for city street design to alter how people drive.
The report, called Vision Zero, outlines dozens of things Windsor needs to do in five, 10 or 15 years to eradicate deaths or serious injuries for people using city streets.
Windsor's Vision Zero plan needs to go before council for approval but it's been discussed by the city's environment, transportation and public safety committee.
These plans have been approved in cities like London, Hamilton, and Toronto.
The aim is to design and build roadways so people don't get seriously injured or killed because of predictable human behaviour.
The four most common identified driver behaviours following a collision between 2015 and 2019 were:
Reducing speed limits is one of the key elements of the plan.
"If we actually reduce the speed we can make big progress," said Amanda O'Rourke, executive director of 8 80 Cities which aims to create safer cites for people of all ages.
O'Rourke said studies show a pedestrian is 70 per cent likely to survive if they're struck by a driver going 40 km/h.
That drops to 15 per cent if the driver is going 50 km/h.
"Speed is a really big factor in terms of thinking Vision Zero."
Windsor council is being asked to reduce all residential speed limits by 10 kilometres to 40 km/hr.
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