In Sun Valley, California many of the residents want traffic to slow down but there is a move by the Los Angeles Transportation Committee this week to actually raise the speed limit.
City officials want to slow traffic down on three valley streets, but the irony is that they have to raise the speed limit in order to legally use radar enforcement. A recommendation from last year was to increase the speed limit from 35 mph to 40 mph. Find out more on this story visit the abc news website.
But where can a Morris Minor go toe to toe with a Ferrari? In Dublin City centre that’s where. RTÉ reported early this month that the controversial 30km/hr speed limit in Dublin is here to stay and the speed limit will now remain in force until the original review date in July.
A group of 12 councillors had backed a motion calling for the 30kmh limit to be abandoned on both sides of the quays, apart from between Capel Street Bridge and O’Connell Bridge and on Winetavern Street and Kildare Street.
Cllr Tormey had proposed the motion to scrap the limit saying it was ‘excessive, oppressive, unnecessary and wrong’ to impose the limit on the main thoroughfare through the city.
But Labour Cllr Andrew Montague felt that the 30km/hr limit needed to remain over most of the original zone to encourage people to cycle, walk and use public transport.
All of this is good news for couch potatoes like myself – it looks like I won’t have to sprint for the bus in the city centre any time soon.
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The points I take from the article about Los Angeles are :
>traffic speeds must be studied for seven years and then a formula is used to come up with the average speed of drivers.
>”The most efficient movement of motor vehicles is 28 to 35 miles an hour,” said community activist Stephen Box.
I wonder if either was noted in Dublin before the 30kph limit was applied.