Pear Street is a mixed residential street in Saanich, British Columbia Canada. Pear Street runs between Richmond Road and Cedar Hill Street, transected by Shelbourne Street.
Pear Street predates Shelbourne Street and used to be the primary route between the Cedar Hill area and Mount Tolmie.
There are approximately 50 single family residents on Pear Street with the houses ranging in age from the 1920, to the 1990's with most being in the late 1950's and early 1960's when the area transitioned from being farm land. Residents range from young families to retired people with some families having been in residence on the street for over 40 years.
Pear Street is one street over from Doncaster Elementary School and is also a designate bike route to UVic. The street is used extensively by school children, pedestrians and cyclists as well as residents accessing their homes.
Pear Street is a single lane un-regulated street except at the intersections of Richmond, Popular, Shelbourne and Cedar Hill.
Recently (the last 5 years) a traffic light at Shelbourne was converted to from a Pedestrian Crosswalk light to a full traffic signal triggered by vehicles approaching Shelbourne on Pear Street. The addition of this traffic light has caused issues with excessive volume and speed on the section of Pear Street running between Shelbourne and Cedar Hill. This includes heavy commuter traffic (Rat Race scenario) an people trying to "beat the lights" at Cedar Hill and Shelbourne. The result is Pear Street has become unsafe for other usage such as pedestrians and cyclists as well as creating risks for vehicle accidents.