Reduced-Speed Neighbourhood Pilot

We want to share what we’ve learned so far.

Join us at drop-in (come-and-go) community event as part of Phase 2 engagement!
We are holding one event in each pilot neighbourhood.

Preview the presentation boards.

The events provide the opportunity for you to talk to the project team, learn more about the project and share your experiences, expectations, and opinions.

Bourkevale
Date: Monday, January 29, 2024
Time: 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Location: Bourkevale Community Centre, 100 Ferry Rd
Format: Drop-in (come-and-go)

Tyndall Park (South)
Date: Tuesday, January 30, 2024
Time: 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Location: Sir William Stephenson Library, 765 Keewatin St
Format: Drop-in (come-and-go)

Richmond West
Date: Wednesday, January 31, 2024
Time: 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Location: South Winnipeg Community Centre – Richmond, 666 Silverstone Ave
Format: Drop-in (come-and-go)

Worthington
Date: Thursday, February 1, 2024
Time: 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Location: Norberry-Glenlee Community Centre, 26 Molgat Ave
Format: Drop-in (come-and-go)

Thank you to everyone who responded to the Reduced-Speed Neighbourhood Pilot public survey. The public survey was available from October 16 to November 7, 2023. Feedback is currently being considered and a summary of the engagement process will be posted online.

We hope you will join us at one of the discussion forums in the new year. We will hold one event in each pilot neighbourhood and hope you will join us to learn more about the project and talk about your experiences, expectations, and opinions.

Bourkevale
Date: Monday, January 29, 2024
Time: 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Location: Bourkevale Community Centre, 100 Ferry Rd
Format: Drop-in (come-and-go)

Tyndall Park (South)
Date: Tuesday, January 30, 2024
Time: 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Location: Sir William Stephenson Library, 765 Keewatin St
Format: Drop-in (come-and-go)

Richmond West
Date: Wednesday, January 31, 2024
Time: 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Location: South Winnipeg Community Centre – Richmond, 666 Silverstone Ave
Format: Drop-in (come-and-go)

Worthington
Date: Thursday, February 1, 2024
Time: 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Location: Norberry-Glenlee Community Centre, 26 Molgat Ave
Format: Drop-in (come-and-go)

How do you feel about reduced speed limits in residential areas? Share your thoughts through an online survey before November 7, 2023. This survey is also available in French/Ce sondage est également disponible en français.

This survey is open to both residents of pilot neighbourhoods and Winnipeggers who live outside the pilot areas. Your answers will help us understand pilot residents’ experience with the speed limit change and broader perspectives on speed limits in general.

We are also holding a series of discussion forums in the new year. We will hold one event in each pilot neighbourhood and hope you will join us to learn more about the project and talk about your experiences, expectations, and opinions.

Bourkevale
Date: Monday, January 29, 2024
Time: 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Location: Bourkevale Community Centre, 100 Ferry Rd
Format: Drop-in (come-and-go)

Tyndall Park (South)
Date: Tuesday, January 30, 2024
Time: 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Location: Sir William Stephenson Library, 765 Keewatin St
Format: Drop-in (come-and-go)

Richmond West
Date: Wednesday, January 31, 2024
Time: 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Location: South Winnipeg Community Centre – Richmond, 666 Silverstone Ave
Format: Drop-in (come-and-go)

Worthington
Date: Thursday, February 1, 2024
Time: 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Location: Norberry-Glenlee Community Centre, 26 Molgat Ave
Format: Drop-in (come-and-go)

Phase 1 public engagement summary is now available

Thank you to all pilot neighbourhood residents who participated in Phase 1 pre-pilot engagement. This phase included school travel surveys, meetings with project stakeholders, and an online survey for pilot residents who live on a street where the speed limit has changed. The Phase 1 public engagement summary and appendices are now available and provide an overview of the feedback collected for the project.

The feedback we gathered during this phase told us about how people in the pilot communities feel about safety, comfort, local travel mode choice, and how to define livability. A citywide scientific survey also provided insight into Winnipeggers’ feelings about speed limits.

This pre-pilot research told us that, at the time, 60 percent of Winnipeggers wanted to keep residential speed limits the same and 40 percent wanted lower residential speed limits.

The full report is available under the documents tab.

The posted speed limit has been reduced in the pilot neighbourhoods and will be in place for one year.

Thank you to the residents of these neighbourhoods who filled out the pre-pilot survey. This will help us understand things like:

• How you feel about safety and comfort in your neighbourhood
• How you move around your neighbourhood and why you choose the mode you do
• Whether and how you enjoy life in your neighbourhood
• And whether traffic plays a role in all these things

We will report back this spring on what we heard in this pre-pilot survey.

In early 2024, all Winnipeggers will have an opportunity to share their thoughts on residential speed limits and how a widespread change may affect their lives.

Before the pilot begins, we want to learn about how community members feel about safety, comfort, local travel mode choice, and general quality of life in their communities.

Residents in the four pilot neighbourhoods will soon receive letters in the mail. The letters will include information about the upcoming changes and a link to an online survey. This survey is only for residents of specific addresses. Those who live on a street where the speed is not changing will not receive a letter.

The survey will give us a baseline against which we can measure any shifts in feelings and opinions brought on by the lowered speed limit. Traffic analysis done before, during, and after the speed limit change will tell us whether driver behaviour changes.

Schools in the pilot neighbourhoods are already involved in the process. They helped us understand how students currently get to and from school and will help again midway through the pilot. We will use the two sets of answers to determine whether lowered posted speed limits changed how kids move around the neighbourhood.

Future phases of this project will include a city-wide survey and in-person events.

If you are interested in being notified when these opportunities to provide feedback are available, please subscribe to get email updates.

The City will be starting the one-year Reduced-Speed Neighbourhood Pilot in early 2023. Subscribe to the project to get email updates.