Starting this month, the City of Courtenay will be rolling out new reduced speeds in neighbourhoods around elementary and secondary schools.
The new 40 km/h signs will be installed on roads within a 500-metre radius around all School District No. 71 schools in the city. This is in an effort to improve safety to those who walk, roll or drive to and from school and beyond.
The speed reduction initiative is part of a phased plan to change speed limits to 40 km/h in neighbourhoods across the city in the next five years with a goal of safer streets.
The 40 km/h speed limit will be in effect 24 hours a day, seven days a week. On streets with lower posted signs, those lower speeds will be in effect during the designated hours.
To view an interactive map of current and future phased speed limit reductions, visit
