Traffic calming helps slow or reduce traffic through residential areas.
This term is a catch-all for interventions that change the roadway or environment to in turn change driver behaviour. Interventions can be physical (things like speed humps and bump-outs). They can also be regulatory (things like turn restrictions).
When speed and shortcutting are a problem, we use traffic calming measures to do one or more of the following:
- Reduce conflict between cyclists, motorists and pedestrians
- Enhance safety and comfort for pedestrians, cyclists, drivers and residents alike
- Create visual cues that cyclists and pedestrians are present
We install traffic calming in two ways:
- Via our annual traffic calming program
- Using traffic calming quick-builds
Traffic calming program
When we receive a request to review a location, we assign it to one of two streams:
- Single-street traffic calming
- Community traffic calming
Traffic calming quick-builds
Quick-build methods are an alternative to calm traffic quickly. Find out where we are implementing quick-builds this year.