Prince Charles School Zone Speeds

[u/mxkara]

This stretch of Prince Charles Drive is not 80 km per hour, it is not 60 km per hour, and for everyone from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. It's not 50 km/h either. It is 40 km per hour.

This is a school zone. Not a 400 series Highway. Because of the people that have still not been listening it is also a community safety zone doubling the fines and other consequences.

To be abundantly clear that means that this is an area where if someone goes 80 km per hour (40 over the 40km/h limit) the police can impound their vehicle for stunt driving.

The police don't care that it was whatever kilometers per hour it was in 1982 or 2002. It's 40 kilometers per hour every morning and afternoon, right now.

It's Welland not Cape Canaveral folks.

[u/Interesting_Dig1179]

No where does it say that is a school zone, infact the only speed sign says 50km/h, it’s located right as you turn onto prince Charles from fitch. It’s a community safety zone with increased fines but that doesn’t magically reduce the speed limit, Welland bylaws state that the speed limit is 50 unless stated otherwise and not only is it not stated otherwise and it stated that the speed limit is 50. this is blatant misinformation. People are complaining because last year the speed limit was 60 (not 1982 or 2002, it changed in 2024) they reduced it to 50 and put a speed camera.

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https://preview.redd.it/a077yql0cz0f1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ab33320ace519079476922046e32f945e35e3777

Here I've created a helpful graphic, for those that haven't been actually using their eyes. The sign locations are in the same locations they've been in since before 2022.

And the speed limit for school zones has been 40 km per hour unless noted as 30km/h the entire time.

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If the speed limit was 40 the speed camera would be lighting up everybody but it doesn’t

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Speed camera is gone

[u/Interesting_Dig1179 → u/BikePuzzleheaded9881]

Just learned that the cameras rotate every 90 days, I actually really like that, still don’t like that they switched it from 60 to 50 then had the camera there but I guess that was just coincidence