Columbus City Council is considering a plan to set the speed limit on all Downtown streets at 25 mph. This is a goal of the city's Vision Zero plan.
Columbus City Council plans to vote on legislation proposing to set the speed limit on all Downtown streets at 25 mph., designed to reduce the number of crashes, injuries and deaths in the city.
Speed limits are currently 35 mph on a number of Downtown streets: Broad Street, 3rd Street, 4th Street, Town Street, Rich Street, Main Street, Mound Street, Fulton Street, Grant Avenue and Cleveland Avenue. The city is also changing the timing of traffic lights at seven intersections. Lights will remain red in all four directions for up to seven seconds to give pedestrians a head start crossing the street, she said.
Officials in Austin, Texas, studied intersections in that city where similar changes were made and found an 18% reduction year-to-year in the number of pedestrians hit by left-turning vehicles at Downtown intersections. Matt McPeck, a director of the Columbus Downtown Residents Association, lives at North 3rd and Long streets and said vehicles have struck his building three times in a year-and-a-half.
Amy Taylor, president of the Columbus Downtown Development Corporation, which developed the plan, said that the community wants a pedestrian-friendly Downtown.
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