Montgomery Community Association

Support local this Holiday season and win! Check out this monthly contest through Montgomery on the Bow BIA

Make sure you check out Candy Cane Lane this holiday season! Head down to our dog park in Shouldice athletic area and place a Christmas decoration on a tree. Volunteers have dropped off a huge bag of decorations for us. It truly creates a magical Christmas wonderland! ... Photo: Janine M.

MCA is looking for community residents and businesses who are interested in re-starting our CSI Committee! The Community Safety Initiative will work towards making sure everyone who lives and works in Montgomery, feel safe and connected. Please contact either [email protected] or [email protected] for more information

* DUE TO THE NEW COVID-19 RESTRICTIONS, THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE* MCA will update the community if and when this event can take place.

Montgomery Community Association wants you to have a safe and fun Halloween! Here are some tips from the Province of Alberta to help ensure those who partake in this years Halloween activities remain safe and healthy! Get creative, stay 2 meters apart and have a spooktacular weekend!

Comfort for a dreary day!

With the shut down of everything last spring, students from the U of C were unable to show their vision projects for Montgomery. Avenue Magazine published an article on the students. The results from the students were spectacular and hopefully we can meet to show them soon.

Happy Thanksgiving from MCA- Hope you have a wonderful day!

THANK-YOU! To all who bought a T-shirt(s) and made a donation to the Montgomery bike park. With over $3000 raised, we are now one step closer to building our new asphalt pump track next summer!

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This Wednesday, the Transportation and Transit Committee will review City Administration’s recommendation to reduce the default unposted speed limit for neighbourhood streets to 40 km/h from the current 50 km/h. This would reduce the limit on all Residential streets and select Collector streets, leaving Arterial and other major streets as-is. Councillor Druh Farrell and others report that this will reduce collisions and, critically, save lives. The extensive report can be f...ound here: https://pub-calgary.escribemeetings.com/Meeting.aspx You can also use this great tool to see how a limit change would affect commute times. It’s a change of mere seconds for most: https://www.etatool.com Some key points to consider: 1. Over 9,000 collisions and 550 serious injury/deaths happen on neighbourhood streets every year. That’s 25% of overall Calgary collisions and they generate hundreds of millions in annual societal costs. 2. The World Health Organization reports that pedestrians are 90 per cent likely to survive when struck by automobiles travelling at 30 km/h, 60 per cent at 40 km/h, and less than 20 per cent at 50 km/h. 3. Administration’s proposed approach is to, with street retrofits over time, reduce speeds further to 30 km/h on Residential and 40 km/h on Collector streets. 30 km/h is the international best practice for neighbourhood streets, and is the speed I ultimately support. However, Administration feels 40 km/h is the best that can be achieved in advance of further traffic calming over coming years. 4. Increasing the City’s commitment to neighbourhood traffic calming will be key to making the speed limit reduction more effective in saving lines. 5. The report recommendations will improve street safety on their own by reducing speeds. In the medium to long-term, it will also make traffic calming easier and more effective. Currently the City has to traffic calm to 50 km/h, which is still too fast for our neighbourhood streets. Administration’s proposal will make calming to 30 km/h and 40 km/h possible. If you submit a letter please consider supporting the change, pressing for accelerated action on the needed traffic calming, and detailing how street safety is one of the most important things in making our neighbourhoods safer and more liveable. Letters can be addressed to Councillor Druh Farrell and submitted to her email by the morning of 30 September to make the Committee agenda. If you can’t make that deadline, please send a letter by 26 October to make the 2 November Council date for the final decision on the proposed speed limit. Thank you for all your advocacy in making our communities safer.

Thanks for the reminder!

New fall photo curtesy of Jason S. Thanks Jason for sharing and allowing us to use your community fall photo!

Way to go! Great community building accomplished by an amazing group of neighbours with an interest! Thanks to all who have worked to make this happen.

LAST CHANCE TO BUY A T-SHIRT AND SHOW YOUR SUPPORT TO THE MONTGOMERY BIKE PARK! One more week to put your order in: https://zone4.ca/register.asp?id=24281&lan=1&cartlevel=1... Visit our website for more information: https://www.mcapeople.com ORDER NOW!

Join Calgary-Bow MLA, Demetrios Nicolaides for a Facebook live townhall on Thursday, Sep. 24 at 6:30pm. https://fb.me/e/f6vAWfV8K

Make Ripples in your Community; join the Ripples Granting Committee and help decide which community-building projects to support! If this volunteer opportunity interests you, please contact Sherra at [email protected]