Staggered speed tables in one south Winnipeg neighbourhood are hitting the brakes.

Speed tables act like speed bumps to slow traffic, but efforts to get drivers to slow down have created safety concerns.

Sharon Coughlan said drivers avoiding the staggered speed tables has become a problem.

"Their intent is for them to slow down traffic, but everybody is going around, so everybody is doing the ‘S’ and going all the way around," she said Wednesday.

Coughlan said the swerving is especially bad when she stops to pick up her mail because vehicles are driving head-on into her lane.

“It's actually very dangerous, so I don't think it's doing what it was intended to do,” she said.

Area Coun. Janice Lukes (South Winnipeg-St. Norbert) said Aldgate Road is wide and has few stop signs, and traffic calming measures are needed to meet a growing population with many children.

The staggered speed tables were installed last fall.

Just minutes into her interview with CTV News the safety concerns became visible. The camera captured a large truck going around the raised pavement, then a pick-up truck.

Lukes said the staggered speed tables are a pilot project and agrees with the safety concerns.

"The engineers are the ones who select the location and they select the style and they modify it,” she said.

“I think people have to understand every street is different and requires different treatment and this is a pilot so we can learn for other parts of the city."

A change is now underway on Aldgate Road. The city is shaving off some of the speed bumps to make ones that go from curb to curb.

On Dalhousie Drive there is an example of a wider speed table that's also been made into a crosswalk.

Vehicles can't maneuver around it. Similar ones will be installed on Aldgate Road.

"For the people who are familiar with the area. they start to understand. So they are not waiting to be on the bump to slow down, they start to slow down earlier because they know it's ahead so it’s great," said father of two Patrick Di Stefanie.

Coughlan's family is looking forward to the wider speed tables coming to Aldgate Road.

“Makes it safer so that not everyone is going as fast,” said 12-year-old Nolan.

“I think it would be way better. Slow down for them, but not everybody does. I think that's the only way around it to be honest," said Coughlan.

The wider speed bumps are expected to be completed by the end of this month.

Lukes said these are not part of a pilot project and will stay.

The city said the cost to install the original staggered speed bumps on Aldgate Road was $33,800. It said that cost does not include removal or replacement.