More than half of Richmond News readers find speeding in their neighbourhoods to be a regular occurrence, according to a recent poll.
Of the 518 readers who voted in the online poll, 68 per cent said drivers speed "all the time" in their neighbourhoods, followed by 20 per cent who said it depends on the time of the day.
Around 10 per cent found people usually followed the speed limit.
The News recently reported the City of Richmond is considering reducing the speed limit from 50 km/h to 30 km/h on smaller neighbourhood roads in the Hamilton neighbourhood.
The city staff recommendation came in response to ongoing speeding concerns, with the highest speed recorded on Westminster Highway in front of Cranberry Children's Centre being 150 km/h.
According to ICBC data, speed was the top contributing factor to crash fatalities between 2018 and 2022, followed by distracted driving, impaired driving, road conditions and driving on the wrong side of the road.
The poll ran from March 1 to 8. The full results are as follows:
Results are based on an online study of adult Richmond News readers that are located in Vancouver. The margin of error - which measures sample variability - is +/- 4.3%, 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.
- With files from Valerie Leung.
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