Columbus City Council approved asking ODOT to sign off on lowering speed limits on all Downtown streets to 25 mph.
The Columbus Dispatch
"If people use the rules of the road, if they use the tools that are on the roadways, we know that we can prevent crashes from happening," Council member Lourdes Barroso de Padilla said in support of lowering the speed limit. "The roadways in the Downtown District are not suitable as through streets," background information attached to the ordinance said."Further, these roadways are business and residential in nature, are within the core pedestrian areas, and foster a downtown neighborhood that supports a multi-modal transportation system that embraces walking, biking, and transit."
But Columbus resident Jillian Dyer, a biking advocate, told council members that an unintended consequence of the move is going to be more forced"negative interactions" between Columbus police officers and motorists — assuming police enforce the reduced speed limit. Philanthropist Abigail Wexner, chairman, CEO and founder of Whitebarn Associates, LLC, a private investment company, was a founding member of the KIPP Columbus school board and is currently vice chairwoman. She is the wife of L Brands founder and former CEO and president Les Wexner, a New Albany billionaire whom Forbes lists as the richest person in Ohio.
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