Portland Will Reduce Residential Speed Limits to 20 MPH
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To improve traffic safety and make streets more welcoming for walking and biking, Portland will lower speed limits on nearly all of its residential streets.
Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Speed
Wide Residential Streets Are Dangerous. Why Are They So Common?
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Ever wonder why so many residential streets are so wide even though they only see a trickle of car traffic?
The 85th Percentile Rule Is Killing Us
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A report from the NTSB is vindicating advocates' critique of an engineering standard that seeks to accommodate motorist behavior instead of designing streets for safety.
The State With the Deadliest Traffic in America Admits Its High-Speed Streets Have to Change
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Florida is the most dangerous state in the nation for walking and biking. To save lives, the state DOT is planning to lower speed limits and redesign streets to encourage safer driving.
NTSB: Speed Kills, and We’re Not Doing Enough to Stop It
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More than 112,500 people lost their lives in speed-related crashes from 2005 to 2014, accounting for 31 percent of all traffic deaths in America over that period. In a draft report released earlier this week, the National Transportation Safety Board says excessive speed is a deadly problem in our nation's transportation system -- one that federal and state officials aren't doing enough to address.
Hero Mom Fined By Police for Vigilante Traffic Calming
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She wanted her kids to be safe in the front yard, so she held the sign over her head and stood in the middle the street. Police slapped her with a jaywalking ticket.