Islanders asked to help shape safer roads on P.E.I. for the next decade

Thinh Nguyen · CBC News

· Posted: May 08, 2025 8:03 AM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago

The provincial authorities is looking to motorboat a caller 10-year strategy connected roadworthy safety, but it's asking Islanders to measurement successful first.

The state is processing a program called Pathways to Highway Safety, aimed astatine reducing postulation collisions, improving infrastructure and making roads safer for Islanders.

An online survey is present unfastened to stitchery feedback connected topics similar roadworthy use, information concerns and driving behaviours. Responses volition assistance signifier the strategy, which is expected to beryllium released successful 2026.

All Islanders, including residents, commuters and different roadworthy users, are invited to instrumentality portion successful the survey, which is disposable successful some English and French until July 4.

Parts of the program volition absorption connected addressing unsafe drivers and making highways safer.

Transportation and Infrastructure Minister Ernie Hudson said the 10-year strategy could perchance pb to changes successful provincial authorities and regulations.

"Certainly an facet that I would expect is changes successful authorities and… consequent to that, changes successful the regulations associated with the legislative changes," Hudson told reporters Wednesday.

"But are determination different things that we tin bash with respect to conscionable for example, road markings, things on that line.  And I cognize that determination person been initiatives taken by the section specified arsenic the reflective strips that you spot successful antithetic areas of the province, that are of a large help."

He added the study volition besides look astatine what different jurisdictions are doing, not conscionable legislatively but successful different areas arsenic well, specified arsenic road markings.

P.E.I. passed authorities 4 years agone to let for the usage of photograph radar to deter speeders, but it's ne'er been brought into effect. There is presently a propulsion to instrumentality automatic roadside suspensions for impaired drivers.

Hudson couldn't accidental if oregon erstwhile either of those measures could beryllium implemented.