The City of New Westminster will use this Vision Zero funding to purchase and install two speed reader boards to be deployed at locations where a recent road safety review identified high vehicle speed as a significant contributing factor in injury crashes.

The City has prioritized and focused commitment to road safety, especially to vulnerable road users. In 2023, they undertook and completed an intersection safety study, titled "Intersection Network Screening Road Safety Review", to determine where to focus their road safety efforts. The study identified multiple locations where high vehicle speeds are a significant contributing factor to the occurrence and severity of crashes. To reduce speed at these locations, the study recommends installing speed reader boards, which through various studies have demonstrated their effectiveness at reducing vehicle speeds in the short and long term. Locations for these speed reader boards are to be data driven, based on evidence from the network screening findings and other dynamic traffic data. Some locations that were identified in the study include: Tenth Avenue and Sixth Street, Queens Avenue and Sixth Street and Stewardson Way and Twelfth Street. These locations highlight the following concerns: high truck activity along well-used arterial corridors, heavily used pedestrian crossings near schools and high traffic volumes at intersections close to schools that also have high pedestrian volumes.

The installation of speed reader boards at intersections is expected to reduce vehicle speeds along the road sections. This would not only improve pedestrian safety and comfort at these locations, but also have the co-benefit of reducing the number and severity of crashes near the locations where the speed-reader boards are installed. Speed reader boards at these locations also serve to improve areas that have the greatest equity need (based on the report "All Ages and Abilities Active Transportation Network Plan").