Weyburn City Council will be discussing city speed limits in the public meeting on Monday. City-wide speed limits have been a hot topic around the city in recent weeks as the city ran an online poll to determine the public views on the matter.

"I am only one vote amongst seven," said Weyburn Mayor, Marcel Roy.

"It's going to be up to council as a whole to decide."

Roy's opinion is the city speed limit should be taken up to 50 km/h with the school zone increased up to 40 km/h with time restrictions. This means outside of the time restrictions such as 8 am - 8 pm, the speed limit would be 50 km/h in those school zones.

"We have to move forward and become the city that we are. We are a city and that means that things move along and we come along with the times and with that we are the last city that still holds back at 40. We can obtain 50 km/h within the whole city without any issues along the way."

The 30 km/h school zones speed limits were started in the summer of 2016 without time restrictions. The recent online poll results show that the majority of poll takers would prefer to see the general speed limit increased to 50 km/h around Weyburn with school zones maintained at 30 km/h but with time restrictions. 

Roy adds that we don't have to follow the same as other cities in Alberta and British Columbia, which are doing the school zones how Weyburn has currently. He added there shouldn't be 30 km/h school zones and park slow zones throughout the city, slowing down traffic everywhere.

"Let us be a city and catch up with what we want to do and move our city forward so that we can flow our traffic through." 

Heavy goods vehicle routes in the city are going to be looked at by council as well.

"Keep the big trucks out of the city," said Roy and went on to say it is about stopping distances. When you have a large vehicle it is harder to stop.

"We don't need the dangerous goods going through our city and we can skirt them around the outside and that's one of the things that council should be looking at.

Weyburn's Mayor also raised the issue of school bus arms and said it is an unenforceable law and a hazard.

"Get the children dropped off on the corner, have them remain on the corner until the bus leaves, then they can see traffic and cross the road safely."

"We do not want to make un-enforceable laws."

The city council meeting starts at 5 pm, Monday at City Hall.

Correction made to article: The previous version left out 30 km/h in the paragraph about Roy’s view on how other provinces have 30 km/h school zones. He doesn’t want to rid the city of school zones but just increase to 40 km/h school zones.