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Encouraging Safer Speeds in Your Community
The Towards 40 program is focused on improving safety in areas where speeding and road safety issues have been identified. The program will encourage safe driving habits and increase speed limit compliance using adaptable measures to improve safety, moving Edmonton closer to our Vision Zero goal.
The 106 Street project area from 97 Avenue to 100 Avenue is in the Gathering Information phase of the project, where data and feedback through public engagement opportunities will be collected and analyzed.
106 Street Project Area survey has been extended until Monday, January 6, 2025 to allow additional time for the public to share their lived experiences travelling along 106 Street, from 97 Avenue to 100 Avenue.
The Background Report is now available for the Wagner Road project area. The report includes feedback from residents and information collected by the project team during the Gathering Information phase when people shared their lived experiences and suggestions for improvement in the project areas. The draft design will soon be available for Edmontonians to review and provide feedback.
Adaptable measures were installed in summer 2024. An evaluation phase is planned for spring 2025. During the evaluation phase of the project, Edmontonians will have an opportunity to share their lived experiences travelling in the project area since the adaptable measures have been installed.
An evaluation phase is planned for spring 2025. During the Evaluation phase of the project, Edmontonians will have an opportunity to share their lived experiences travelling in the project area since the adaptable measures have been installed.
Public engagement is now complete for the Gathering Information phase. The project team is reviewing the feedback and drafting the background report that reflects City policies, technical considerations and what we heard during engagement.
Improving the conditions on low compliance and exception roads ensures that all Edmontonians using these roadways, regardless of how they travel, will get to where they’re going safely.
The program is focused on:
The Towards 40 program uses the lived experiences of residents combined with technical data to inform decision making. Public engagement opportunities throughout the program are highlighted in yellow in the Towards 40 Program Roadmap.
View current public engagement updates for your project area.
This program uses the City’s Public Engagement Framework. Learn more about our public engagement process.
What is a Low Compliance Road?
Low Compliance Roads are roadways where the default 40 km/h speed limit is regularly violated and where safe driving behaviours can be further encouraged.
What is an Exception Road?
Exception roads are roadways that didn’t transition to 40 km/h when default speed limits were reduced in 2021. They have been identified as an area where lower speeds need to be encouraged to prioritize safety and accessibility.
What are Adaptable Traffic Calming Measures?
Adaptable measures include curb extensions, parklets, adaptable two-stage crossings, and other configurations.
They allow the City to improve safety conditions on our roads until permanent infrastructure can be installed.
1. Gathering Information
The City collects data and public feedback through public engagement opportunities. People can advise on their lived experience travelling through the project areas and provide suggestions for safety improvements. At the end of this phase, a background report is shared to summarize the feedback and data collected.
2. Creating Draft Designs
Based on the background report, the project team develops the draft designs using adaptaptable measures that will encourage speed compliance and safer driving behaviours.
3. Sharing Draft Design
The draft design is shared with the public, who are encouraged to advise the project team on their feedback through public engagement. At the end of this phase, a What We Decided Report is shared to show how the project team arrived at the final design.
4. Sharing Final Design
The project team creates the final design using adaptable measures that reflect City policies, technical considerations and feedback heard from public engagement. The final design is shared with residents.
5. Installing Adaptable Measures
The new adaptable measures are installed in the project areas. The public is notified in advance of when installations will occur.
6. Evaluating the Changes
The City collects data and feedback through public engagement about their lived experience and level of comfort travelling within the project areas with the new adaptable measures. At the end of this phase, an evaluation report is shared, which summarizes the feedback and data, showing how driver behaviour has changed since the installation of the adaptable measures.
Use the Safe Streets Map to explore all of the active Towards 40 project areas.
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The City will collect before and after data to measure the impact on speed compliance and traffic safety. This information, once gathered and assessed, will be available to the public at Towards 40 Project Areas in an Evaluation Report.
Towards 40 projects are funded through the Traffic Safety Automated Enforcement Reserve, which reinvests automated enforcement revenue in safe and livable streets improvements.
Adaptable measures like curb extensions, two-stage crossings and speed humps can vary in cost from location to location based on the amount of materials, signage requirements and design considerations. These measures can be installed at a lower cost than permanent infrastructure and allows the City to evaluate how effectively these measures increase safety and speed compliance.
Measures (adaptable or permanent) are used to adjust the road design to naturally support slower speeds in residential areas and increase safety in a number of ways:
This program is outlined in the Safe Mobility Strategy, approved by Council in 2020. The strategy is designed to move Edmonton further on our path to Vision Zero by laying out how we can work together to create safe and livable streets by 2032
The Snow and Ice Control team is involved in reviewing the design plans for every adaptable traffic calming measure installed across the city. Most of the adaptable traffic safety measures across the city remain in place for the cold season.
Placement of some measures may be adjusted to reduce impacts of snow and ice. Site inspections over the winter verify the effectiveness of the placement of the adaptable measures.
Learn more about how snow is removed around adaptable traffic measures at Safety by Design.
For more information about snow clearing and to sign up for Parking Ban notifications, visit Safe Travels.
