Lord Aylmer included

Improved signs for school walkways

Street signs indicating school safety corridors, identical colours for areas surrounding school corridors and improved visibility of signs should appear on Gatineau streets in the near future.

 

This is what the safety corridors’ committee hopes for, a committee of school commissioners from the Commission scolaire des Portages-de-l’Outaouais (CSPO), the West Quebec School Board (WQSB) and some Gatineau officials, including Jocelyn Blondin, Manoir-des-Trembles-Val-Tétreau councillor and former CSPO President, and Sylvie Goneau, Bellevue councillor.

Ms Goneau, on behalf of the committee, made a presentation on school access to the municipal council on July 5.

Following the presentation, council mandated the “Commission de la sécurité publique et de la circulation”, as well as other municipal services, to develop an action plan to increase safety around the five schools, including Lord Aylmer School on Frank Robinson Avenue, as part of a pilot project.

“We have asked for cost estimates of the initiatives and that an action plan be developed to increase safety around the five Gatineau schools. We have also asked for an implementation plan – short, medium and long-term – and that all be available before the 2017 budget discussions so that we can determine how to move the plan forward,” explained Ms Goneau.

The councillor also asked that the planning regulations be reviewed so that new housing developments are conducive to walking and safer for children.

(Transl.: CB)