Rob Carnie: One more thing before I let you go, City Manager Carmichael, and that is, let’s talk about the progress with the new signage for the 30 kilometer per hour school zones.
I did see contractors erecting new signs at Saint Agnes School just recently, are all the signs at all the schools up now, or do we still have a few to go?
Maryse Carmichael: We’re nearing completion. This is the end of this project for this year. For the school zones, new signs, the new speed limit to 30 kilometers per hour.
It will be done by the first day of school, September 3rd, so every school zone in the city will have the new speed up and posted.
Rob: Moose Jaw Police Service let us know that there will be some leniency through the month of August, but with those 30 kilometer per hour speed limit signs up it’s the law now to slow down to 30 kilometers per hour in those school zones.
Come September when the kids get back in school, there won’t be as much leniency, and I suppose that’s out of your jurisdiction. That’ll be up to the Moose Jaw Police Service to decide how aggressive they will get with the radar guns in school zones.
Maryse: Absolutely, and yes, very grateful to (the) police to just give all our residents time to adjust. It is an adjustment, I can tell you for a girl from Quebec City, that it’s hard to slow down, but it is required.
It’s about the kids. It’s ensuring that everyone is safe, so yes 30 kilometers an hour. For August, the Moose Jaw Police Service was lenient and really advising. But once school starts in September, it’s real, we will have kids in those school zones and it’s important to obey the 30 kilometers an hour.