yellow and grey speed hump across a small roadway intersection

Traffic Calming Strategy

The purpose of the Town’s Traffic Calming Strategy is to incorporate best practices in traffic calming with local context to provide an efficient, flexible and systematic framework to address traffic safety issues relating to excessive speeding, traffic infiltration, and collision frequency and severity.

The Town issues a Request for Tender in June 2026 and will retain a contractor to complete installations over the summer.

Speed Hump Implementation

Following a temporary pilot program that used seasonal rubber speed bumps and traffic delineators, the Town is moving to install permanent Speed Humps as a more consistent, long-term Traffic Calming solution. Speed Humps are raised sections of roadway designed to slow vehicles by creating a vertical shift, encouraging drivers to reduce speed.

This supports the Town’s overall Traffic Calming Strategy, originally presented in 2024 and revised in 2026.

Locations

Proposed permanent speed hump locations are generally in line with existing temporary speed bump locations:

  • Lakeshore Road, west of Appleton Avenue
  • Lakeshore Road, east of Appleton Avenue
  • Lakeshore Road, west of Ninth Line
  • Glad Park Avenue, between Baker Hill Boulevard & Kellington Trail
  • West Lawn Crescent, between Creekland Avenue & John Davis Gate
  • Rupert Avenue, between Summerfield Avenue & Glengall Lane
  • Greenwood Road, between Forsyth Farm Drive & Alderwood Street
  • Hemlock Drive, between Aspen Crescent & Deborah Place)
  • Stouffer Street, between Main Street & Dorman Drive
  • Burkholder Street, between Church Street South & Park Drive
  • Franklin Street, between Rose Avenue & Burkholder Street
  • Yakefarm Boulevard, between Hoover Park Drive & Raxin Street
  • Sunnyridge Avenue, between Hoover Park Drive & Raxlin Street

Traffic Calming Measures - Toolbox

  1. Full-Lane Transverse Bars
  2. On-Road ‘Signs’ Pavement Markings
  3. Peripheral Transverse Bars
  1. On-street parking
  2. Lane Narrowing
  3. Road Diet
  4. Curb Extension
  5. Traffic Delineators
  1. Textured Crosswalk
  2. Textured Pavement
  3. Transverse Rumble Strips
  1. Red Light Cameras (RLC)
  2. Radar Speed Signs
  1. Traffic Circle/Roundabout
  1. Raised Crosswalk
  2. Speed Hump
    1. All of the stuff from the 31 March e-mail as an expanding list.
    2. Link to Speed Hump detail drawing
  1. Tiger Tails
  2. Reflective Strip on STOP signposts
  3. Left-side STOP sign
  4. Left-turn Traffic Calming

Stay informed

Coming Soon

Residents can submit a request for traffic calming measure at a specific location prior to November 1st of a calendar year for implementation in the following calendar year. (Timing subject to change, more details coming soon)

Contact:

Curtis Roach

Senior Project Manager, Capital Projects
Engineering & Public Works
Town of Stouffville
curtis.roach@townofws.ca

Timeline:

Tendering: June 2026

Implementation

July - August 2026

Maintenance & Warranty

August 2027

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