Your July 19 article on Charlottetown awarding a tender to supply speed bumps raises a question about speed limits in the city.
For example, if a speed limit is posted at 40 km/h, you should be able to legally and safely drive that street at 40 km/h.
If speed bumps are placed in any area to control speeding, which is by definition vehicles exceeding the legal speed limit, then nothing should be placed in the street in such a manner to impede travelling up to the legal limit. Speed bump configuration should be such that permit travel at the legal limit while limiting the ability to travel faster than the legal limit.
If a person is travelling the legal speed limit, anything placed on the street that might cause damage to any vehicle (including a bicycle or motorcycle) travelling within the legal speed limit should be subject to legal action in order to compensate for repairs or injury caused by legal driving.
Which is it? Is the posted speed limit the law? Or is there some other hidden speed limit of about 10 km less which applies? Or is the city just going to change the regulations so it cannot be sued for its own mishandling of the situation?
Doug MacDonald
Charlottetown
