Some residents of Main Street in Liverpool are calling on the municipality to lower the speed limit on one end.

At Tuesday's council meeting two petitions were received asking to reduce the speed limit on Main Street from 50 km/h to 40 km/h between Court Street and the Fort Point Park.

Well over 100 residents and businesses signed the petitions raising concerns about safety for both drivers and pedestrians as the reason to reduce the speed.

Mayor Darlene Norman says because the Region of Queens owns the road in the former Town of Liverpool, they have the authority to lower the speed limits. But before that can happen, a traffic study would need to be undertaken to determine if reducing the speed limit will make the area safer.

“We’ve directed staff to look at the costs involved,” said Norman. “Because one of the criteria for this would be you have to have a traffic study done by an outside agency that can show that because of traffic calming devices that you’ve installed and other things, that a large percentile of the people that travel will obey that reduced speed limit.”

Staff will look into the cost of a traffic study as well as what other traffic calming measures may be effective in that situation. That information will be presented in a report to council at an upcoming meeting.

Listen to the interview with Mayor Norman below: