The warden of Antigonish Co. says they’ve collected traffic data on a fast stretch of highway.
Municipal officials asked their counterparts with the province’s transportation department to get an idea of speeds on Hwy. 337 past St. Martha’s Regional Hospital, and come up with ways to reduce those speeds in April.
After October’s regular municipal council meeting Tuesday night, Owen McCarron, Antigonish Co.’s warden, said they collected data from speed signs in the area, and shared that data with RCMP.
“They’re disseminating some of the information now to kind of give us a sense of the time-of-days and things like that,” he said. “That’s the information you really need to actually adjust speed zones and speed limits.”
McCarron said that time-of-day data should lead to additional enforcement as a short-term solution until speed limits can be changed.
