In Tuesday night's meeting, the council voted unanimously to lower the speed limit to 20 miles per hour on"all streets unless otherwise posted.""Statistics show that if you're hit by a car walking at 20 miles an hour, the odds of being killed are about 7 percent," said Jon Larsen, the city's transportation director,"But that it increases exponentially at 30 miles an hour. It's about 50/50. So just that 10-mile-an-hour difference would save a lot of lives.
This comes one week after 24-year-old Libbie Isabel Allan was hit and killed by a suspected drunk driver on 1700 South near 900 East. She was five months pregnant with her second child, and her 2-year-old daughter was critically injured. That same week also saw a string of deadly crashes, with other pedestrians and cyclists being hit and killed by vehicles.
Sweet Streets Salt Lake City, a group that aims to change"land-use and transportation from auto-dependency to people-first," thanked the council for the decision but said there is still more work to be done to"address the bulk of traffic violence." A press release from the organization said the ordinance will change the speed limit to 20 on streets currently posted at 25. While they said this will impact 75 percent of the city's streets, Sweet Streets said the roads that account for"the majority of traffic violence in Salt Lake" will not be affected.
"We are grateful for the responsiveness and thoughtfulness of the council on this issue. We hope this will be a watershed moment for other municipalities to model and adopt in Utah. However, the work is not yet done," Sweet Streets board member Alex Cragun said."Streets whose design and speed have resulted in several preventable deaths and injuries over the last two years and will still continue to be an issue.
Residential streets need 25 mph speed humps. Low cost, easy, safe. They work.
Lmaooo fucking Utah morons. All the californiatards wanna make it like california. Focus on something that actually matters. Not fucking exhaust noise and lowering the speed limit 💀 fuck you
where it is justified sure, but there are places that it should be 30 as well that there ae no houses and are just fence lined
Listen, if you speed in a residential area you need to rethink your life
Solution looking for a problem?
slcmayor must be so pleased. I’m sure all the ped-auto accidents that have been due in large part to repeat DUI offenders will completely go away. Riiiiiight… she must also think that because people are shaped like speed bumps that speed bumps will also help.
If you want people to drive slower then make the streets narrower, people will drive more defensively
Big issues in Utah. Speed limit is more important than keeping Roe v. Wade. Covid is raging in Utah, but the speed limit, alas, making headlines. Omg.
I'm not sure if this is the best solution, maybe better enforcement of existing limits? This will probably amount to a regressive tax on the poor. How about fines that scale with income or car BB value? Or a warning on first offense? Or separate bike lanes? Longer yellows?
This “solution” is the solution of people who don’t think logically and pragmatically. If anybody thinks this will make neighborhood streets any “safer,” they should quickly have their head examined.
Dang! Now I’ll be going 15 over.
BenWinslow I’ll still drive the Utah speed limit of 5 over, but thanks
BenWinslow and BTW that sign in the public park strip is illegal
Just my opinion backed by science... Pedestrian first laws get pedestrians killed. Too many peds assume autos will stop and don’t wait. Ped first laws ignore✨physics ✨. Autos are heavy and don’t stop on a dime like a pedestrial can. Give the greater mass right of way. Duh.
This is a good thing. Why are so many people in such a damn hurry anyway?!
Referencing Libbie for this is absurd. The individual that hit and killed her was 3x legal alcohol limit 5 hours after hitting her. Doubt DUIs will follow speed limits... This is a bandaid (without adhesive) that won't fix the root problem
BenWinslow If it's going to be enforced, the first offenders to get hit should be the cops themselves.
Because 5 xtra makes a difference and then they will park cops in neighborhoods to give tickets to increase the revenue a financial hit on those already struggling under the cost of inflation
Punishable by fine means legal for a price. Speed enforcement does a a joke.
Who is going to enforce it
People are regularly going 40 mph down our narrrow neighborhood streets. No one cares what the speed limit is.
“maH fREedUmms!”
That’s great but it’s not good enough. It should be 15. - Someone, probably
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