Cleaning The Community Today and More Projects Ahead
Some of you saw the students and the teachers from Dr. Martha Cohen School picking up litter in New Brighton. We want to thank them for volunteering their time to make our community better and cleaner. They came up with the idea and we put in the work to get some funding and make it happen.
We are proud to say that for the first time in our community’s history, the Community Association, the Residents Association, and Dr. Martha Cohen School came together and successfully obtained a grant from the City of Calgary to clean our community and to get other interesting things done – we do not want to talk about things that are still in the making and spoil it for you.
It is amazing what teamwork, fresh ideas, and volunteering time can do when the people involved have the community at heart and put a common strategy together. We hope that what we start now will continue and we would love to see more people interested in what’s happening in the community. We keep saying that one voice, one rant on social media, will rarely change anything but more people, together with support from partners within the community, can work miracles. This project is not big by itself, but it is big because of what it represents, by the perspective of more future projects.
Thanks for reading, stay tuned for more and enjoy this awesome summer.
New Brighton Tool Shed
There are more tools added to the tools shed based on what you wanted to rent and was not in the inventory. More tools to come in the future and thank you all for making it possible – all the feedback is appreciated, and any Community Association memberships purchased keeps us afloat and able to tackle more projects. Details on www.ournewbrighton.ca/tool-shed/.
New Speed Limits in Calgary and Traffic Challenges
Starting May 31, 2021, the speed limit across the city is 40 km/h, unless otherwise posted. This change will affect the speed limit on both residential and collector roads in neighbourhoods, but there will be no changes to speed limits on higher classification roads (e.g., Deerfoot Trail, Bow Trail, Anderson Road, Memorial Drive) or playground zones.
Do you think that the speed is the real factor in all the traffic incidents or is it just us? Most complaints about speed are in the school zones at the hours when the parents drop off their kids. Coming September, if schools resume their normal schedule, we will go back to the same complaints and demands for special signage and special rules around the schools. What about for once us, the parents, follow the very rules we would want to see enforced by the laws? What about for once, we have a selfless, common sense approach, and realize that most of the traffic in a school zone is not made of people from other communities flooding our roads but is just us doing the usual parking in school bus stops, making U-turns when the traffic or the signage doesn’t permit, and paying no attention to other kids crossing after we safely dropped off our kids. Is it too much to ask? Let’s keep everyone safe, and do not forget, you need a law when the common sense doesn’t prevail anymore.
A detailed map of the speed limit on specific roads is available on the City’s website. It is an easy tool where you can put in a certain address and find out the speed limit for that specific location. Let’s stay safe and think about everyone’s safety.
