New speed limits in Lake Forest Park
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
On February 6, 2025, the City introduced new speed limits across Lake Forest Park to ensure safer streets for everyone.
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| Map 1 Local Access new limit 20mph |
What’s Changing?
- Local Access Streets: New limit: 20 mph (map 1)
- Arterials/Collectors: New limit: 25 mph (map 2)
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| Map 2 Arterials new limit 25mph |
Why the Change?
- To reduce accidents and protect pedestrians, bicyclists, and drivers.
- To foster a more livable, walkable community where everyone can feel at ease.
- In response to community input and the latest research and safety studies.
- Follow the new speed limits.
- Stay alert and mindful of your speedometer.
- Encourage friends and neighbors to do the same.
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14 comments:
This really worked for the best in Seattle. I hope Kenmore will do it too.
Fine
Now enforce them
Vehicles on Brookside typically are over this speed”limit”.
On an evening with good weather some cars can be over 50mph. Even higher in summer weekends.
Want to balance the city budget? Ticket the speeders.
Why did you take down the electronic speed sign?
Good to have reduced limits-but without enforcement of the limits or safe walking/biking paths, it’s going to be hard to achieve the goals.
Make sure to keep your eyes laser focused on your speedometer so you don't inadvertently get a camera ticket. When this takes your attention away from looking out for pedestrians, too bad for them I guess. That's what happens when governments chase the appearance of safety instead of doing what actually improves safety: jailing the small percentage of reckless/impaired drivers who are a danger to us all.
It would be great if LFP could actually invest in making their roads safer for pedestrians/cyclists by implementing real traffic calming measures instead of expecting people to drive 20 on what are essentially mountain highways. This is first and foremost a revenue collection tool, safety is just how they justify it to the public. They don't have many other ways of generating revenue for the city because they refuse to allow commercial development. Don't be fooled!
Change last title to say Help Us Keep Our Community Safe! Not ... Keep Out Community Safe!
There should’ve been a longer trial. Going 30 where it is not marked clearly and getting a ticket at 8 PM is unjust. In addition, your website looks like IFP instead of LFP where you’re supposed to pay the ticket because it’s in lower case. When you go to the other website, you click on pay ticket and you signed up for a scam that costs $40 a month to some cable company. So then one has to cancel their credit card . There should be six months where you get warning tickets prior to this happening. You also should have a QR code on your ticket bill so people can pay the ticket without Talk scammers. The speed limits go against what people learn in drivers Ed on arterial roads. If you change the rules, you need to change the signage in a way that people know they are getting a ticket 24/7. It is fine to have a slow speed limit if it says you will be ticketed for going over. But driving a group of kids to young life twice a year should not get somebody $150 ticket because it is not clearly posted. I will send you the bill for what I paid for the scam. ;)
Revenue for the city: That’s been my feeling ever since I moved here six years ago.
Way to go LFP! To those of you who said the speed limits and hours are not posted... please drive somewhere else. You are clearly not paying attention to the dozens of signs or our kids and grandparents who are walking the city. To the poster that asserts its a revenue collection tool- this is laughable! The state specifically states that the money has to be used for pedestrian safety. How many of you posters actually live in Lake Forest park or are you just using our neighborhoods for a cut-through? Use the state routes and stay safe.
Just curious what happened to all those NO RACING ZONE signs that were spaced out every 25 feet? They aren’t there anymore. Not that it would’ve ever deterred actual racing. Also, good way to improve safety is by fixing all the dangerous intersections, that seem to still be dangerous, even with a lower speed limit.
As others have said, we have people zooming down our streets, so the city's response is to lower the already low speed limits to a snail's pace and expect that to produce results.
Folks, it is not people driving 30 on arterials who are causing the problem. This is window dressing.
I wish Shoreline would follow suit.
This is a money grab. The one thing that will effectively help are sidewalks. Pedestrians on the roads are a huge problem and expecting people to slow down on a tiny street yet keeping a very windy connecting road with blind turns at 30mph makes no sense. When will the city wake up and install some proper sidewalks instead of messing around and wasting money on band-aid fixes?
Does LFP have high accident/pedestrian accident rates?
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