2022-02-15 19:03:52.64123+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Just closing tabs. Not exactly news, but I'll want to find it again: STUDY: 20 Is Plenty — But Signs Alone Don’t Always Get Drivers to Slow Down
In a recent study from Portland State University, researchers examined what happened in the six months after the Portland City Council finished the process of reducing speed limits in residential areas from 25 miles per hour to 20 mph. In addition to updating the nearly 1,000 speed limit signs the city had already put up, the City of Roses also added more than 1,000 new signs to remind drivers to slow down in places where limits were previously unclear; they also distributed roughly 7,000 yard signs that declared to all road users that “Twenty Is Plenty,” as part of an overreaching public awareness campaign.
Although the average speed only dropped by 1.4MPH, it does seem like there were fewer very fast drivers...