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BEAVER BANK<\/strong>: The Councillor for Upper\/Middle Sackville-Lucasville-Beaver Bank spoke of the speeding concerns she has heard and answered why there\u2019s no crosswalk on a very busy street where school kids cross Beaver Bank Road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Councillor Lisa Blackburn said she meets monthly with the RCMP Inspector for the area she represents, where she brings community concerns to the table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cSpeeding is always a big concern, so when we let the police know about it, they step up their patrols in those neighborhoods,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She recalled a recent ride-along she took with an RCMP officer and watched them work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt is something that they take very, very seriously,\u201d said Blackburn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”31″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”6″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n She said there are a number of things to slow down vehicles in our communities. Blackburn said neighborhoods can always apply for speed tables or speed humps to help slow things down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Beaver Bank Community Awareness Association has a digital speed sign that they will deploy by request to neighbors that are concerned about speeding,\u201d said Blackburn. \u201cWe have a lot of tools in the tool chest that we can use.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Blackburn said it\u2019s her understanding the provincial government is working towards some sort of photo radar program, which she feels would go a long way to curbing speeding in the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now speaking about an issue that is always talked about on community groups in the Beaver Bank area, a crosswalk at Majestic Avenue for children attending Beaver Bank-Monarch Drive School from across Beaver Bank Road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe issue is that HRM\u2019s traffic authority uses a Canadian standard when it comes to the placement of crosswalks, marked crosswalks,\u201d said Blackburn, \u201cand that Canadian standard says there must be a sidewalk on the other side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThat’s the whole reason why there’s only one crosswalk in all Beaver Bank road. Where is it? It’s at that intersection where the sidewalk goes from one side of the road.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”34″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”148″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, Blackburn said there might be some hope after Sackville councillor Paul Russell managed to get a crosswalk across a road that doesn’t have sidewalks on both sides. That crosswalk is at Beaver Bank Road and Boxwood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhen I saw that I kind of went \u2018hang on a second and I immediately went to Google maps and said I don’t see a sidewalk there.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI got on the phone to Paul and asked him what he did to get it. It sort of sets a precedent now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”25″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”7″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”84″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [adrotate banner=”127″] [adrotate banner=”105″] BEAVER BANK: The Councillor for Upper\/Middle Sackville-Lucasville-Beaver Bank spoke of the speeding concerns she has heard and answered why there\u2019s no crosswalk on a very busy street where school kids cross Beaver Bank Road. 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