By Lucy Scholey, Ottawa Metro News, January 29, 2015

Drivers may need to put the brakes on their driving habits in residential
neighbourhoods, as the province mulls reducing speed limits from 50 km/h to 40
km/h. That’s a good thing for Ottawa, according to Mayor Jim Watson. It was a
policy he tried putting in place in his city councillor days during the 1990s.
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