Mississauga changes school zone speed limits and adds new Community Safety Zones

Starting this spring, the City will be updating the signage for speed limits in school zones on both local and major roads. In October 2024, Mississauga City Council approved a report with amendments to change the regulatory posted speed limits in school zones to time-of-day speed limits.

Changes to school zones speed limits on local and major roads

Mississauga currently has 199 school zones on local roads where the speed limit is 30 km/h. Under the new amendments, the speed limit will remain 30 km/h from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday to Friday. Outside these times, the speed limit will be 40 km/h.

The 31 school zones on major roads will be reviewed on an individual basis with potential changes to the existing regulatory speed limits.

The work will take place over the course of 2025 and early 2026. The new speed limits will not take effect until new signs are installed.

Establishing Community Safety Zones on major roads

As part of this update, all school zones on major roads will be designated as Community Safety Zones and will be eligible for automated speed enforcement. All school zones on local roads were designated as Community Safety Zones in 2021.

Community Safety Zones are designated sections of the roads where public safety is of special concern. Many set fines are doubled in these zones, such as speeding and traffic-signal related offences. This move will help increase public safety by helping to reduce aggressive driving and speeding.

Upcoming initiatives to reduce speeding

In 2025, the City is planning to implement various road safety initiatives to reduce speeding, including:

• Installing additional traffic calming measures to reduce speeding. In 2024, there were nine traffic calming projects installed that helped increase speed limit compliance by 35 per cent.
• Installing more pedestrian crossovers to provide protected pedestrian crossings. In 2024, there were 21 pedestrian crossovers installed that provided protected crossings to more than 100 pedestrians per day, per location.
• Enforcing both local and major school zones with the City’s speeding cameras. In 2024, 64 local school zone locations were enforced with the City’s 22 speeding cameras. The average operating speed decreased by 8 km/h and speed limit compliance increased by 35 per cent at these locations.
• Adding more roads to the Slow Streets program where temporary traffic calming devices are installed on neighbourhood streets to reduce speeds. In 2024, 241 roads were part of the Slow Streets program. Although traffic bollards are intended to be an awareness tool, the operating speeds decreased by 3 km/h in these locations.

Learn more about road safety: mississauga.ca/roadsafety

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