Leduc will be asking the province to reduce the speed limit of Highway 2 through its municipal boundaries.
The city’s council voted unanimously at their meeting Monday evening, in favour of lobbying Alberta’s transportation ministory to lower the speed limit of the portion of Highway 2’s north-south corrider between Edmonton and Calgary to 80 km/hour from 110 km/hour.
This comes from a recommendation from Leduc’s traffic advisory committee, as they endorsed it after reviewing collision data after a speed-limit reduction to 80 km/h on the highway at the 65 Avenue interchange construction project.
110 km/h is the speed limit between Edmonton’s Ellerslie Road to Calgary’s Beddington Trail.
Leduc has a population of 30,000 and is located 10 kilometres south of Edmonton’s city limit, beside the international airport.
