PBOT will use little-known “emergency” law to rein in speeding drivers
It’s PBOT’s latest move to tame traffic on outer SE Division Street.
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It’s PBOT’s latest move to tame traffic on outer SE Division Street.
Taking lower speed limits into our own hands (sort of).
After a bill passed in 2015, lawmakers want to expand higher highway speed limits.
The new policy will impact 2,400 miles of streets.
Gotcha! You speeding miscreant.
Controlling our own speeds will mean safer streets.
The signs look legal, but aren’t.
“I just drove at the speed of the bikes which was around 18 mph. The car that passed me nearly took out a cyclist trying to get back in our lane to avoid a head on collision.”
The streets’ speed limit is 20 mph, but numerous stretches see large amounts of traffic moving at 26 mph and above.
More cameras, lower speed limits. At least that’s the hope.
Each sign costs about $50, including installation.
The real promise of speed-detection cameras isn’t that they’d bring in money, or even that they’d impose legal penalties.
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