The 700th was built in front of the La Source school and the l’Étincelle building, on the 15th Avenue, in Fabreville, on Nov. 24.

It was one of the last speed bumps of a first phase of implementation, around 67 schools and 139 parks in the territory, launched in the fall of 2020.

“Laval wants to encourage drivers to adopt safer behaviour, reduce their speed and be more attentive to their environment,” said Ray Khalil, municipal councillor of Sainte-Dorothée, vice-president of the executive committee, and responsible for the files of public works.

Second Phase

A second implementation phase of speed bumps in residential streets is being developed, reports the Municipality.

Those actions are part of a series of “traffic calming measures” that have been deployed since 2017, to which are added, for example, road markings, pedestrian crossings, sidewalk overhangs, raised intersections, one-ways, as well as the installation of speed displays and fixed photo radars at some red lights.

As for speed bumps, they’re preferred when “the speed practiced at the 85th percentile exceeds by at least 10 km/h” the speed limit on a local residential collector street.

In addition to forcing drivers to slow down, those speed bumps have the advantage of reducing through traffic, i.e. the traffic created by drivers not living in the neighbourhood.

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That includes the implementation of the area code 354 in Laval, and all areas currently served by area codes 450 and 579. Area code 263 will be added to 514 and 438 in the Montreal region, while areas using 819 and 873 will soon see the appearance of 468.

The implementation of these new area codes is the result of decisions by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), and will help meet the growing demand for new phone numbers.

“The introduction of a new area code makes it possible to provide millions of additional phone numbers, and that, without affecting the existing ones,” said via press release Lucie Papineau-Pugliese, spokesperson for Telecommunications Alliance, in a press release. “The new codes will coexist with the codes currently in service in the targeted regions in Quebec.”

From the moment the new area codes 263, 354 and 468 come into effect, consumers and businesses requiring a new phone service could be assigned a number with the new code.

The implementation of a new area code will not result in any change concerning how to dial long distance calls, or how special numbers, such as 211, 311, 411, 611 and 911, are dialed.

The local communications sector of the concerned regions also remains the same. (N.P.)

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L’article Area Code 354 Added in October in Laval est apparu en premier sur Courrier Laval news.