Standing pat

Speeding isn’t only a problem on Oliver Road, says a concerned Thunder Bay resident.

Tom Connor, a retired English teacher, says a near miss on Lake Shore Drive convinced him the speed limit on the road should be lowered from its current 80-kilometre-an-hour designation to avoid potential mishaps.

“That’s far too fast. There’s a school out there, a community centre, Wild Goose Park, I could go on and on and on,” Connor said on Monday. “It’s blind curves, it’s hilly. Eighty kilometres is not necessary. To go to one end to the other of Lake Shore Drive at 50 kilometres (an hour) would take 20 minutes. At eighty kilometres it would take 15, so you’re saving about five minutes.”

For the sake of safety, Connor is asking motorists to slow down.

But it seems Shuniah town council doesn’t agree.

Contacted about the request, Shuniah chief administrative officer Eric Collingwood told Thunder Bay Television council has heard the complaint, sent on Jan. 31,discussed it and has decided to leave the limit where it stands.

Connor, who lives on Anten Street in Thunder Bay, said the area has built up significantly, even over the last five years, with more residents, businesses and traffic congesting the road.