Engineering
(Good Luck! You get a point for trying)
(Good Luck! You get a point for trying)
This is the most basic traffic calming infrastructure found on a roadway
Speed bump (or flex posts, raised crosswalks, on street parking, lane narrowing/chicanes - planter boxes, temp curbs)
Fines for speeding within this zone are doubled (hint: not a construction zone)
Community Safety Zone
This is a principle, first implemented in Sweden, to eliminate all traffic fatalities and severe injuries, while increasing safe, healthy, equitable mobility for all.
Vision Zero
This Vision Zero approach means implementing evidence-based measures for safe drivers, safe speeds, safe roads, and safe vehicles
Safe Systems Approach
This individual is the Program Coordinator of the Safer Roads Ottawa Program
John Wambombo
This European-inspired intersection type reduces conflict points
Roundabouts
A system that uses cameras (and the corresponding speed measurement device) to enforce speed limits
Automated Speed Enforcement
This Ottawa Fire Services and Safer Roads Ottawa awareness campaign, held every October, encourages pedestrians and cyclists to be visible.
Be Safe Be Seen
This Ontario Traffic Manual (OTM) Book is dedicated to pedestrian crossing treatments
OTM Book 15
These are known as the three Es of safety
Engineering/Education/Enforcement
Raised buttons, bars or depressions closely spaced at regular intervals on the roadway or shoulder that create both noise and vibration in a moving vehicle to alert the driver or cyclist of an upcoming situation, or of a potentially hazardous deviation from the normal travel way.
Rumble strips
This program is an initiative to improve intersection safety by decreasing the incidence of red-light running.
Red-Light Camera
This is theme of the City of Ottawa Strategic Road Safety Action Plan
Think Safety, Act Safely
This is the lowest type of Pedestrian Crossover (PXO) in Ontario
Type "D" PXO
This event was held June 8 in the parking lots of the Ottawa (baseball) Stadium
Public Works Big Wheels Expo(sition)
This is a form of an exclusive pedestrian phase where a walk indication that is provided in advance of the corresponding vehicle green indications to give pedestrians a head start on parallel or turning traffic.
Leading Pedestrian Interval
This project, unveiled in 2019, is aimed at catching drivers who illegally pass school buses while lights are flashing and the stop arm is extended
The School Bus Camera Project
This awareness campaign encourages young drivers to make a public pledge via the Leave The Phone Alone website to avoid distractions while driving.
Leave The Phone Alone (LTPA)
These types of streets are designed to balance the needs of all road users including trucks and service vehicles, pedestrians, cyclists and motorists
Complete streets
This comprehensive and proactive strategy has a vision to make Ottawa roads safe for all users
Road Safety Action Plan
The longitudinal space required by a motorist or cyclist, travelling at a given speed, to bring their vehicle to a stop after an object on the roadway becomes visible.
Stopping Sight Distance (SSD)
There will be 84 of these devices installed in Ottawa, including 4 locations in rural villages, by the end of 2025
Speed Enforcement Cameras
The theme of the Road Safety Action Plan communication ad campaign.
Time is Precious
These Federal safety standards apply to public and private railway grade crossings in Canada.
Grade Crossing Regulations
Public Works Department General Manager
Alain Gonthier