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Montgomery County seeks statutory exemption from per‑road speed‑study requirement
Summary
A local bill from the Montgomery County delegation would remove a requirement that the county conduct individual road‑by‑road speed studies before setting lower speed limits, reflecting the county’s completed countywide speed study.
Delegate Moon presented House Bill 963 on behalf of the Montgomery County Delegation at the Environment and Transportation Committee hearing. The local bill would give Montgomery County continued authority to set maximum speed limits on county roads without duplicative per‑road speed studies because the county has completed a countywide speeds study and maintains maps and guidelines.
Moon said Montgomery County was an early pilot for local speed‑limit authority and has now completed comprehensive countywide work that the sponsor believes makes individual roadway studies unnecessary. The county delegation will offer an amendment to identify the official documents that contain the county’s speed guidelines to address concerns from the Senate in past years.
Ben Ross of the Action Committee for Transit testified in support, calling the study requirement “unnecessary paperwork” for many residential streets. Committee members thanked the sponsor and asked to continue the conversation about the named documents; Moon said he plans amendments to specify the county documents that house the speed designations.
No final vote occurred at the hearing; sponsor said he will return with amendments clarifying which county documents supplant the per‑road study requirement.
