A pilot project is now underway in Alberta to test a higher speed limit on a section of Highway 2.
Devin Dreeshen, the province’s Minister of Transportation and Economic Corridors, says that drivers will now see the new 120 kilometers an hour speed limit signs at a stretch beginning south of the Leduc commercial vehicle inspection station and extending 22 kilometers south along Highway 2.
According to Alberta’s government, a recent survey showed that nearly 70 per cent of respondents were on board with the province increasing speed limits on rural divided highways to 120 km/hr.
Dreeshen notes that if the data from the pilot project proves positive, it is something that they will then be able to expand out to the rest of the province.
