Southwood Elementary School requests speed zone improvements – SteinbachOnline.com [Video]

Southwood Elementary School is asking for improvements to be made to a speed zone edging its premises.

Marge Thiessen, principal of the school, says she and some parents in the catchment have been looking at the zone on Kroeker Avenue at Southwood Drive for several years now.

“We have… probably 35 kids who walk to Southwood School from the area east of the school, and there isn’t a designated crossing,” Thiessen says.

She says if there was better infrastructure there, it would be safer—especially given the presence of the school’s bus loop exit at the intersection, from which busses can go straight onto Southwood Drive, or turn to the left or right onto Kroeker Avenue.

“With buses, there are limitations to what they see,” she explains.

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