Busy Trudeau Drive in Sarnia could be in line for changes to help drivers reduce their speeds.

City staff are recommending painting urban shoulders to make travel lanes narrower, placing flexible traffic calming bollards intermittently along the 1.2-kilometre link between Confederation Street and Finch Drive, and adding a bumpout and curb extension near D’Andrea Trail – all to help slow drivers down.

After requests in April for traffic calming along the street, a review found average daily traffic of 3,000 vehicles, with 85 per cent going at or below 63 km/h, a city report says.

There were also seven reported collisions within the past three years, in the area with a park and “consistent pedestrian activity,” the report says.

“It’s one we’ve heard about in the past,” said engineering

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