Traffic Calming Program Update

During the Council meeting on February 3, 2025 for the adoption of the 2025 City Budget, City Council voted to temporarily suspend the Traffic Calming program. Ongoing pilot projects on High Street, Highland Road, and Sherburne Street/Morrow Street/Montgomery Street will be completed as per the Traffic Calming Policy. Traffic concerns related to vehicle speed and cut-through are still being received by staff, but no new traffic calming projects will be initiated at this time.

Thank you for your understanding.

Project Overview

The City of Peterborough launched the “Calm Streets PTBO” initiative in 2020. Through this initiative, a new Traffic Calming Policy and Toolkit were developed to guide how City staff consider requests for traffic calming measures made by residents on Local Streets, Low-capacity Collectors, and High Capacity Collectors in residential neighbourhoods within Peterborough. The Traffic Calming project also resulted in a Toolkit (or menu) of solutions that the City will consider for use in Traffic Calming projects.

• Traffic Calming Policy Report: This report includes details about the traffic calming policy, the process, the tool kit and relevant background information about the traffic calming study.
• Pilot Study Report: This report provides details about the five pilot traffic calming studies.
• The Traffic Calming Request Form provides a way for community members with the opportunity to suggest future traffic calming study areas. You can also review the process of how a Traffic Calming Request is assessed by City staff.
• Traffic Calming in Peterborough is a map of the status of all traffic calming studies across the City,