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Speed Humps Installed on Hawstead Road

Aug 2, 2025

Speed humps were installed on Hawstead Ave the week of Sept 22nd, 2025.  Arrows will be painted on them shortly.  The City of Winnipeg engineers have been piloting different methods to reduce speed and traffic volumes on Hawstead Road since 2020. Hawstead Road is a ‘cut through’ road that many vehicles use to travel to a different destination. Many conversations with residents on the street and on surrounding streets, much engineering analysis and a variety of pilot projects have occurred over the years. The engineers and street residents agreed to the installation of speed humps – and to keep the speed limit at 30 km hour.

I recognize not everyone likes speed humps – or 30 km an hour, but I ask that you consider the ‘liveablity’ of residents who live on Hawstead and the residents who use Hawstead to walk to the nearby park and sidewalks.

  • Traffic volumes on Hawstead are twice the volume of what the road was designed for. Residents have a very difficult time backing up off  their driveways.
  • On average there are upwards of 30 vehicles a day that speed over the 50 km hour – (study done when the speed limits were 50 km) making it very difficult to feel safe to walking on the road.

Time to travel over speed humps:

  • Hawstead Road is approximately 500 metres in length
  • Traveling 500 meters at 30 km/h over speed humps takes approximately 24 seconds longer than travelling the same distance at 50 km/h.  Let estimate ½ a minute – or even a minute!

I don’t think asking drivers to take one minute longer to travel slowly down a street is too much to ask – in return for a traffic calmed street for the residents who live on it. And for the residents who walk on the street.

Hawstead History:

  • I’ve updated are residents on a regular basis over the years  – on the many initiatives we have taken.
  • We’ve done flyers, held meetings, had reports, and more.
  • For a complete history – please visit https://janicelukes.ca/  enter ‘Hawstead’ into the search engine and many reports will come forward for your to review.