Tag: speed limits

September 20, 2016

Seattle’s safer speeds plan heads to Transpo Committee + Housing is more important than parking

Seattle’s plan to lower default speed limits across the city heads to the City Council’s Sustainability and Transportation Committee today. The plan — which has support from the Mayor’s Office, SDOT and the City Council — needs to make it through the committee and the full City Council before getting the Mayor’s approval and going…
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tagged: speed limits, transportation committee
September 13, 2016

Seattle plan would reduce default speed limits across the city

In a busy city like Seattle, a higher speed limit does little to speed up your trip because traffic and stop lights will prevent you from getting up to top speed very often. But speeds have a huge impact on whether someone is seriously injured or killed in a collision and whether collisions happen at…
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tagged: 20’s plenty, gordon padelford, speed limits
January 18, 2011

Bicycle Alliance pushes bill to ease setting of 20 mph limits

20’s Plenty For Us from Streetfilms on Vimeo. Rep. Cindy Ryu has introduced House Bill 1217, which will allow cities to set speed limits as low as 20 mph in residential and business districts. The Bicycle Alliance of Washington has named this bill one of its legislative priorities, and it already has a list of…
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tagged: 20’s plenty, 2011 legislature, bicycle alliance of washington, hb 1217, speed limits
August 30, 2010

20’s Plenty: Lowering residential speeds to 20 mph

20’s Penty For Us from Streetfilms on Vimeo. The speed limit on residential streets in Seattle is 25 mph. That’s not so bad, considering I have lived places where it is often much higher. But could it be better?
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tagged: 20’s plenty, speed limits, streetfilms