The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) has reduced the speed limit on Aurora Avenue North (SR 99) in Shoreline.
The speed limit will change from 40 MPH to 35 MPH. This change will start once the City updates the speed limit signs.
Reducing the speed along Aurora aligns with WSDOT’s efforts to reduce fatal and serious injury accidents across the state. It is also consistent with Shoreline traffic safety action steps. Our last Annual Traffic Report showed injury collisions rising along the Aurora Corridor.
Reducing the speed along Aurora aligns with WSDOT’s efforts to reduce fatal and serious injury accidents across the state. It is also consistent with Shoreline traffic safety action steps. Our last Annual Traffic Report showed injury collisions rising along the Aurora Corridor.
New speed limit signs were posted last week. They've already changed...
ReplyDeleteIf they’d get their act together and sync the lights, this would make even better sense. Syncing lights cuts down on unnecessary braking (worst cause of pollution besides gas exhaust) and reduces speeding (synced lights means you hit all the greens if you’re going the speed limit—it’s a wonder to behold where it’s set up, like in San Francisco).
ReplyDeleteHow about reducing the speed on the entrance to the Saltwater Park? With the speed bump there I feel like I'm watching the Dukes of Hazzard as cars fly by and go airborne.
ReplyDeleteAt last.
ReplyDeleteYay!
ReplyDeleteWhen we restrict traffic flow on the major arterials we simply push drivers onto the surrounding surface streets, most of which lack sidewalks and are poorly lit, thereby impacting the surrounding neighborhoods.
ReplyDeleteThis makes me laugh. Washington has spent the last five years systematically undermining the rule of law.
ReplyDelete- You see it with the criminal-first legislation which passed in 2021. At least Rep. Lauren Davis admitted that she was culpable for a steep rise in juvenile violence. We haven't seen the same honesty from Rep. Cindy Ryu, Sen. Jesse Salomon, or any statewide officeholders who are every bit as responsible for our city's decline.
- You see it with judges who play catch and release with criminals, until someone out on bond for the 29th time commits a murder. Who could have predicted it?!?
- You see it with the state repeatedly thumbing its nose at federal law. Not just immigration, but also the strict federal requirement that only US citizens can vote in federal elections. Washington is basically threatening Congress to not count our electoral votes and to not seat our House and Senate members because of willful negligence maintaining the voter rolls.
In this toxic environment, WSDOT has the gall to lower speed limits -- without soliciting any outside input -- to the ***30th*** percentile speed in free flowing traffic. The easiest way to lower people's respect for our laws is to adjust the laws until most people break them just by driving safely.
Here's the moral of the story. If it's good enough for Washington, it's good enough for me.
They thumb their noses at laws they disagree with. I'll do the same.
How does making 99 through Shoreline into a bottle neck help anything?
ReplyDelete"Let's fast track this ordinance green lighting the construction of colossal apartment buildings along a state highway. What could possibly go wrong?"
ReplyDeleteYay - more time for texting and social media! ;-)
ReplyDeleteAnonymous @ 10:44 AM: It reduces the number of injuries and deaths from collisions. While there are certainly other ways to achieve that, they're far more expensive and take longer to implement.
ReplyDeleteIn August, one of my old girlfriends from college came to visit me. She lives in Atlanta. The first time we went out she had 3 questions. (1 Why is the grass so dry? I thought it rains here all the time. (2 The trees are SO tall. Do they ever fall down? I'd be scared to live under them. (3 Why isn't the speed limit (on Aurora) 45? Why does everyone drive so d*mned slow?
ReplyDeleteAnonymous @ 7:13 AM: Did you know that Georgia has 40% more fatal crashes per capita than Washington?
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