A handful of aldermen objected to lowering speed limits across the city, suggesting Chicago take a more targeted approach to lowering driving speeds by neighborhood.
CHICAGO -- Chicago could lower its default speed limit from 30 mph to 25 mph starting in 2026, under a measure advanced by a City Council committee on Wednesday.The City Council Committee on Pedestrian and Traffic Safety on Monday approved the measure by an 8-5 vote, but Ald.
'It doesn't make sense to use this one size fits all approach.'Ervin also questioned why La Spata and the ordinance's sponsors settled on a 25 mph default speed limit for most city streets, rather than going even lower.'Why not reduce it to 10 miles an hour?' he said. 'It's not something that I'm proposing, but I'm just saying of course if you walk, if nobody drives, yes we have zero traffic fatalities, but that's not grounded in the terms of reality.
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