The Always 30 in Beach Grove group is continuing its speed awareness campaign with the recent release of an online survey of area residents to get key input on speeding and whether more needs to be done by the City of Delta.
The ‘Always 30 in Beach Grove residents’ group was started in November.
The self-funded campaign is designed to serve as a reminder to drivers to respect the community’s speed limit of 30 km/h.
“With an absence of sidewalks, bike lanes and street lighting, pedestrians and cyclists are required to share the roads with cars and trucks. Therefore, vehicle speed is important,” said Steve Simpson, founder of the group. “We are grateful for the City of Delta mandating a 30 km/h speed limit to all of Beach Grove, but unfortunately, the pace of life of some who transit through our neighbourhood causes them to speed.”
It was with this in mind that the first phase of the project came to pass last year - an awareness campaign that would allow residents to visibly show their support for slowing down vehicles travelling through their community. Each one of the 120 households who signed up displayed a lawn sign and put up $20 of their own money.
The next step was a large sign campaign on major thoroughfares aiming their message at vehicles coming into and through Beach Grove. As these signs are on public property they required, a special one-year bylaw permit that was granted by Delta.
The erection of the first large sign was attended by the Always 30 in Beach Grove campaign team, as well representatives of the City of Delta and Delta Police.
The third phase was the survey, while the last phase was to prepare a report directed to the City of Delta and the Beach Grove residents that, aided by the study, crystallized concerns and formed a list of specific requests to the City that would be constructive, informative and collaborative.
“While the Always 30 campaign members are not experts in city planning, we do believe we can be a valuable stakeholder in contributing to the understanding of the problem of speeding in Beach Grove, and discussing solutions that represent the values of our community,” added Simpson. “Therefore, we have offered to be a part of a community task force with the City to look at measures that satisfy not just our issues but those of our neighbouring communities in Delta.”
A copy of the report and survey can be found at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/14-Zxzt0jETfIcoHKypgtKEmnXLDHb1PX/view?usp=sharing.
