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Originally Posted by #-3

I don't think I believe this at all.

If you want to slow down residential streets, put more trees near them, paint more center lines on them, paint shoulder lines to define parking areas, paint more crosswalks, empower communities to do the painting themselves if it's a budget problem, many community associations will do it. make the streets feel narrower and people will slow down.

The vast vast majority of drivers will drive the speed that feels comfortable to them, regardless of the posted speed limit. Having some people drive a speed that feels uncomfortably slow on a road because they are sticklers for rules is breading conflict that creates risk. If you want slower roads make it less comfortable to go fast by making the roads feel narrower without making them narrower.

Even if we can't agree on what the speed limit should be, I think we can both agree what the end impact of this change will people. People will continue to drive whatever speed they have always driven on residential streets unmonitored and unenforced. While police resources are wasted on areas that accidentally fall under these new guidelines and have nothing to do with the pedestrian safety arguments you are making, because those will be the easiest places to rack up fines, and speeding tickets as they are currently issued have nothing to do with a concern for community safety.

Painting lines on residential streets would get crazy expensive.