Bluewater council has approved a motion to reduce the speed in the village of Bayfield on a trial basis.
Bayfield ward councillor Bill Whetstone had requested the reduction out of concerns for people walking through the village, and at their last meeting councillors agreed to try it.
“It's going to be a one-year pilot program to reduce all of the speed limits in Bayfield, not Highway 21, like to thirty kilometres an hour. And the intent of that is to try to slow traffic down, because we don't have sidewalks so people walk on the roads," Whetstone explained.
During the discussions, Whetstone notes there was some interest from some of the other villages within the municipality.
“We'll have to see how this goes. And then at budget time for next year we are going to view how that went and potentially implementing something across all of Bluewater, whether it'll be thirty or forty or what it will be, but there's a lot of interest," added Whetstone.
Whetstone says for the the villages in the municipality that don't have sidewalks other than on the main street, walking can be dangerous if motorists are going too fast, so he expects to see the speed limits reduced in some of those other villages.
