I don’t mind residential non-arterial bring 40kmh.
Where this all comes from is the Vision Zero movement in traffic design. Rather than looking at an acceptable rate of fatalities the goal is zero.
Lowering speed limits has been shown to lower average and peak car speeds. Whether this translates into lower fatalities or injuries has not been determined yet.
https://www.iihs.org/news/detail/cit...imit-in-boston
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We found significant reductions in the odds of vehicles in Boston exceeding 25 mph, 30 mph and 35 mph associated with the reduced speed limit, and the decline was biggest for the odds of vehicles exceeding 35 mph," Harkey says.
There was a 29.3 percent decline in the odds of speeding for vehicles traveling faster than 35 mph. The odds of speeding fell by 8.5 percent for vehicles going faster than 30 mph and 2.9 percent for vehicles exceeding 25 mph.
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This isn’t Councillors trying to find solutions to problems that don’t exist, or the city going out on a limb doing things that haven’t been tried elsewhere or a cash grab. What they shouldn’t do is ask the public for feedback to hide behind some report. Get your engineers to evaluate all of the data in jurisdictions that have implemented it and make a risk based decision.
What anyone in this thread thinks is irrelevant.