{"id":15728,"date":"2016-11-03T13:40:55","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T17:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=15728"},"modified":"2016-11-03T13:41:40","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T17:41:40","slug":"resident-wants-answers-on-speed-cushion-pilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/resident-wants-answers-on-speed-cushion-pilot\/","title":{"rendered":"Resident wants answers on Speed Cushion \u201cpilot\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

After reading a recent article appearing in The Auroran entitled \u201cSafety trumps cost as speed hump project moves forward\u2019, I submitted the following questions, in writing, to Town Council:<\/p>\n

1.\tOne of the councillors told me that Council made a decision not to delay the installation of speed humps on Mavrinac, Kennedy West, and McMaster due to \u201csevere safety concerns\u201d, even if it meant going over budget. What criteria constitutes \u201csevere\u201d concerns as opposed to lesser ones?
\n2.\tHow was it determined that the three streets slated for the pilot project met these criteria?
\n3.\tAre those same three streets the only ones in Aurora which met these criteria and if so, how was that determined?
\n4.\tBy deterring speeding, is the pilot project aimed at \u201creducing\u201d accidents or \u201cpreventing\u201d them on these same three streets, as both scenarios differ widely in scope?
\n5.\tWhy can\u2019t data obtained from streets that have already had similar speed humps in place (i.e. Kennedy and Golf Links) for longer than the proposed duration of the pilot project be used to determine the efficacy of it? (Hold on a sec! Doesn\u2019t that mean the pilot project isn\u2019t really a \u201cpilot\u201d project?)
\n6.\t One of the Councillors told me that, in the future, \u201cthe remaining streets having concerns with Traffic Safety\/speeds brought forward….will be going through the warrant process and will need to qualify before further traffic calming measures are implemented.\u201d What are the qualifications?
\n7.\tOne of the Councillors told me that the concern of residents coming forward with traffic safety issues is why she brought the Traffic Advisory Committee back \u2013 \u201cto handle such requests and ensure proper processes are followed avoiding this type of situation.\u201d Were proper processes not followed in this case? Exactly what is \u201cthis situation\u201d that Council wishes to avoid?<\/p>\n

Interestingly enough, Council has declined to answer any of these questions.
\nOne can only speculate as to the reason. Perhaps it\u2019s because someone is questioning why so much tax money is being wasted on a project that has not been proven to be warranted. Perhaps it\u2019s because someone is questioning why the safety of families on three streets in Town is more important than the safety of the families on all the other streets.
\nPerhaps it\u2019s because Council heard a localized special interest group of homeowners yelling, \u201cThe sky is falling, the sky is falling!\u201d and without bothering to look and see if it actually was, decided it was in the best interest of all homeowners in Town to go ahead with the funding anyway.
\nPerhaps someone from Council would explain to Auroran readers, a lot of whom don\u2019t live on the three designated streets, like myself, why this \u201cpilot project\u201d is in the best interest of everybody in Aurora.<\/p>\n

Stewart Ivol
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After reading a recent article appearing in The Auroran entitled \u201cSafety trumps cost as speed hump project moves forward\u2019, I submitted the following questions, in writing, to Town Council: 1. One of the councillors told me that Council made a decision not to delay the installation of speed humps on Mavrinac, Kennedy West, and McMaster […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-opinion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-45G","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 00:02:03","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}