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Here are the results from our latest online opinion poll

Residents want to see more traffic calming measures in the city
Staff Writer
DPD vehicle enforcement
The Delta Police Traffic Unit and its other vehicle inspection partners conducted a joint commercial enforcement in Delta late last week.DPD Traffic Unit/Twitter

Delta Optimist polled 425 Optimist readers and asked the question: Are more traffic calming measures/enforcement needed to slow down Delta speeders?

The poll ran from Jan. 9 to 17, 2024. Of the 425 votes, we can determine that 155 are from within the community. The full results are as follows:

YES 65.16% local, 63.06% total    
NO 34.84% local, 36.94% total    
  Local   Total

Results are based on an online study of adult Optimist readers. The margin of error - which measures sample variability - is +/- 4.71%, 19 times out of 20.

Optimist uses a variety of techniques to capture data, detect and prevent fraudulent votes, detect and prevent robots, and filter out non-local and duplicate votes.