Local Government Alter Speed Limits

Local authorities - altering speed limits - residential neighborhoods - permissive factors to consider. In addition to conducting the traffic investigation or survey already required, the act allows a county or municipal authority to consider the following factors before increasing or decreasing speed limits for residential neighborhoods within the authority's jurisdiction:

• Road characteristics;
• Current and future development;
• Environmental factors;
• Parking practices;
• Pedestrian and bicycle activity in the vicinity; and
• Crash statistics from the most recent year.
  (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)