On Monday evening, Weyburn City Council discussed and debated the speed limits of city roads and school zones. The final vote saw a motion to keep the speed limit at 30 km/hr and without time restrictions. More on the story can be found here.

Reactions from Weyburn to the vote have been coming in as the news broke this morning of the results.

Brenda was not pleased with the results. 

"Well, I think just in the school zone there that it should be just while the kids are in school and not all the time because it's ridiculous." 

She was also unhappy with the decision to keep the speed limit on Railway Avenue at 40 km/hr. She likened Railway Avenue to the Ring road in Regina and that it should be faster.

During city council Councillor Dick Michel said if the speed limit was set to 50 people could be driving at 55 km/hr or 60.

"That is very fast for people who are trying to back out and access either left or right on Railway Avenue."

Weyburn's Mayor Marcel Roy disagreed with Michel and said people are supposed to pay attention regardless of age and it is the individual driver's responsibility to drive safely whether they are driving on a road or backing on to it.

"If you're driving a vehicle you are to pay attention."

This morning Vicki was glad the vote happened the way it did.

"I am totally fine with it, people are used to it the way they are. If you change the school zone to a time limit then all you're going to do is make people look at their clocks to check the time instead of looking at the road."

Mike was surprised the vote went against a time restriction and speed increase. The poll had shown a majority in favour of a speed limit increase and time restrictions on school zones.

"It's a little ridiculous having it be so slow all the time. People should always be looking out for children no matter what time of day it is and 30 km/hr just seems to be a little slow."

"We knew there would be a little bit of discussion around the speed zones again and we knew it would probably be a spirited discussion which it was," said Amber Wiggins, Communications Officer, City of Weyburn.

"Obviously given the poll, there were people who wanted it changed and so I'm sure there will be some people that are unhappy with that decision but I know there were people who called in and expressed wishes for it to remain the same. So those people will be happy. I don't know that you would have pleased everyone no matter what the decision was."

It was suggested in council on Monday night to revisit speed limits on roads such as Railway Avenue in the future but this may not be any time soon.