Austin will lower speed limits on nearly 50 streets as part of a continuing attempt to reduce traffic deaths and serious injuries.
Dozens of stretches of road will have their speed limits reduced by between 5 and 15 miles an hour. This section of Far West Boulevard is slated to go down to 30 miles an hour.
Austin's latest speed limit project started in 2020 on streets within a perimeter bounded by U.S. 183, Ben White Boulevard and MoPac — an area defined by city officials as the"urban core." But traffic experts say telling people to slow down on roads designed for faster speeds can create a dangerous differential in which some people obey the reduced speed limit and others drive at the speed for which the road was originally designed.
Speed limit enforcement in Austin has plunged in recent years as more traffic cops have been reassigned to patrol duties like responding to 911 calls. The number of speeding citations issued in the last five yearsAustin's City Council also approved a measure telling the city manager to find ways to increase traffic enforcement on freeways, frontage roads and busy streets where most severe car crashes happen.
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