Why are LSVs being restricted to roads with speeds of 50 km/h or less?
• By definition, low speed vehicles (LSVs) cannot attain speeds greater than 40 km/h. Allowing LSVs on higher speed roads could potentially increase the safety risk to LSV drivers and other road users created by the speed differentials. • This approach is consistent with permitted use in B.C. and Quebec. • Also, by limiting to 50 km/h roads, the extended pilot would: • permit the evaluation of the operation of electric low-speed vehicles (LSVs) in mixed traffic on low-speed roads of 50 km/h or less across the province. • help determine the safety impacts of allowing LSVs to be driven in a non-enclosed environment and to observe how they integrate with other road users in actual mixed traffic settings. • determine where low-speed vehicles are best suited – and safest — to travel in future. • Other slower moving vehicles — limited-speed motorcycles, bicycles, mopeds — are restricted to roads with lower speed limits.
