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Poll result: Richmond News readers split on new 50 km/h speed limits

Some welcomed the move by the city, while others felt the new 50 limit was too slow
Speed limit sign 60km

Richmond News polled 853 Richmond News readers and asked the question: How do you feel about the City of Richmond cutting speed limits to 50 km/h?

The poll ran from 2/2/2023 to 2/7/2023. Of the 853 votes, we can determine that 237 are from within the community. The full results are as follows:

Should have happened years ago 18.57 % local, 22.39 % total    
It's good, but not sure how it'll make a difference 35.02 % local, 30.48 % total    
Not sure 4.22 % local, 3.75 % total    
50 km/h is too slow 37.13 % local, 38.57 % total    
Don't care 5.06 % local, 4.81 % total    
  Local   Total

Results are based on an online study of adult Richmond News readers that are located in Richmond. The margin of error - which measures sample variability - is +/- 3.35%, 19 times out of 20.

Richmond News uses a variety of techniques to capture data, detect and prevent fraudulent votes, detect and prevent robots, and filter out non-local and duplicate votes.