Motion passed to lower speed on Fairview Road

By Nancy Abra

Thames Centre council has voted to lower speed limits on Fairview Road at the northern entrance to Thorndale.

At the Thames Centre council meeting Nov. 4, a motion was brought forward by Ward 1 Coun. Tom Heeman and was passed by council. The result was direction to municipal staff to lower the speed limit on Fairview Road from the northern approach into the town of Thorndale from 80 km/hr to 60 km/hr starting at the railway crossing, and to have the previous 50 km/hr transition to be reduced to 40 km/hr.

“The goal of this is to slow traffic down,” Heeman said in a social media post, “before they enter the town boundary. “Eighty to 50 is too sharp of a transition. The new limits also create more enforcement opportunities for police. Here’s hoping drivers will drive safer.”

There is an OPP online Citizen Self Reporting tool www.opp.ca/index.php?id=132 for minor crimes including poor-driving complaints like following too close, unsafe passing and failing to abide by road signs.