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Here’s what matters.
- Saanich has already adopted a Road Safety Action Plan. The campaign is about delivery, not adoption.
- Earlier reporting records both delivered work and budget pressures. It does not prove today’s projects are all delayed.
- The petition asks for a dated 2027 schedule that separates funded work from priorities still needing money.
Bring the plan back to the everyday journey
You don’t experience road safety as a programme name. You experience it at the crossing you use, the turn you take and the route your family travels. A delivery schedule helps connect those daily journeys to the work Saanich can actually fund.
Saanich adopted its ten-year Road Safety Action Plan on October 21, 2024. The plan contains 30 actions and already commits to reporting. The public question is not whether another plan should be adopted; it is how residents can follow delivery of the one already approved.
The District’s 2025 Climate Report Card says implementation of active transportation and the road-safety plan was behind schedule because of budget constraints and delayed funding. That is the District’s account of the reporting period. It should not be stretched into a claim that every action remains delayed today or that no work has been done.
“In progress” needs a next step
The current traffic-calming page identifies Harriet Road, Cadillac Avenue and Falmouth Road as the three funded 2026 projects. Existing project and annual reports provide information residents can use. A practical next step would connect those reports to a single action-by-action 2027 delivery schedule.
That schedule could identify funded tasks, priorities still seeking resources, revised milestones and the next date residents should expect an update. Clear status labels would help distinguish design, funding, construction and completion. They would also make an acknowledged delay easier to understand without reducing a complex programme to a claim that nothing is happening.
Show the work that can happen next year
The petition asks Saanich District Council and Engineering to publish that schedule by January 31, 2027, building on the reporting already promised. It does not ask the District to guarantee a construction date for an unfunded project. It asks for a candid account of what can be delivered and what still needs a decision.
No claim about the safety of a particular present-day road is established by this article. Residents can use the linked plan and traffic-calming information to examine the evidence, then decide whether they support a clearer public delivery schedule. If an equivalent current schedule is identified, Local Voices will add it and update the campaign’s remaining request.
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