City Council faces another roadblock to lowering speeds on Winkler streets with high volumes of pedestrian traffic.

The Province's Highway Traffic Board recently denied the City's request to lower the speed limit on 15th St from 70 km/h to 50 km/h.

The street is flanked on either side by sports fields and walking paths.

"Someone's going to get killed out there," councillor Don Friesen says.

In the Southgate and Stonegate development and Orion lane, the city feels the speed should be limited to 30 km/h due to its high density and number of young familiesIn the Southgate and Stonegate development and Orion lane, the city feels the speed should be limited to 30 km/h due to its high density and number of young families.

Instead, MIT says the area should remain 50 km/h though suggested other measures, such as speed bumps, be installed.

"We may well decide to do that, but that isn't the only remedy," Winkler Mayor Martin Harder says. "We need to ensure traffic in controlled and the speed limit is adequately posted, and let's hope that it's not a child that becomes a speed bump."

"We're very frustrated with the Highway Traffic Board, we believe their demands and conditions are unreasonable," Harder says.

He notes other communities are having similar issues.

"They are saying, "Why are you (MIT) worrying about whether our speed limit is 50 or 30? It's really none of your business,'" Harder explains.

Many hope to see the board change from an oversight agency to simply a commentary board, allowing municipalities more control over the speed limits within their jurisdiction.

A motion to lobby the government to change the responsibilities of the traffic board passed unanimously at recent central district AMM meeting.

"We're not alone, and we will win," Harder says.