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Atherton committee recommends school-zone speed reductions, delays changes to safety-corridor limits
Summary
The Town of Atherton transportation committee voted to recommend lowering speed limits in specific school zones and to hold off on changing designated safety-corridor speed limits. The committee asked for coordination with neighboring jurisdictions where roads are split across city/county lines.
The Town of Atherton Transportation, Bike and Ped Safety Committee on Jan. 28 recommended that the City Council pursue lower speed limits at several school zones while declining to change speed limits along the town’s designated safety corridors at this time.
Robert, a transportation staff member, told the committee the California Vehicle Code normally sets speed limits using an 85th-percentile (often rounded to the nearest 5 mph) and that recent state law changes allow additional five-mile reductions in business districts, senior areas and along safety corridors and permit school-zone reductions as low as 15 mph when children are present. He said the council had already adopted a local roadway safety plan and designated Alameda de las Pulgas, Marsh Road, Middlefield, Oak Grove and Valparaiso as safety corridors and asked the committee to…
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