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Residents should finally get a fix to the crosswalks on Scona Road next year, but it will cost taxpayers an extra $637,000.

The road was built too wide and too fast for the residential neighbourhood when it was widened in 2011. That has created a speed trap for motorists stuck going 50 kilometres per hour on a road built for speed, and frustrated pedestrians trying to safely cross at the top of the hill.

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The best solution, traffic officials told councillors Wednesday, is to tear out the new pavement in the free-flowing right turn lane and replace it with a much sharper turn, which would force vehicles to slow down.

“I’m actually really pleased,” said Cheryl Trepanier, a Strathcona area resident who is with the grassroots organization Paths for People.

“The Office of Traffic Safety actually came to the table with a proposed solution that was pretty good. They obviously had listened to the concerns and addressed them.”