South National Street meets all the requirements for traffic-calming measures, but a report to Windsor City Councillors does not recommend going ahead.
A detailed review showed residents supported traffic calming between Pillette Road and Jefferson Boulevard. It was even initiated by those living in the area.
About 11,600 vehicles use South National daily, and the average speed is well over the limit of 50 km/h. Most drivers are cutting through the Riverside neighbourhood, while in the past five years, there have been 17 crashes.
There's even money in the budget to pay for traffic calming, including calming curbs, a median at Jefferson Boulevard, a pedestrian crossover at Westminster Avenue, and a cyclist crossing at Balfour Avenue.
The report estimated the cost at $517,000, easily covered by the $545,000 not earmarked for other projects in the city's Traffic Calming Capital Project fund.
City officials allowed residents and business owners to give feedback at an open house last December. They sent a mailout to addresses in the neighbourhood and posted a survey on social media.
Then the results of a poll came in.
For the city to move forward, it needed at least half of the residents to respond. Only 12 per cent did. At least 60 per cent had to approve the plan, but only 26 per cent said they liked it.
If councillors accept decide to accept the report's recommendation, residents won't be allowed to ask the city for traffic calming on South National Street again.
