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La Mirada council adopts traffic survey and introduces ordinance to adjust speed limits on six streets
Summary
The La Mirada City Council on March 10 adopted a staff engineering and traffic survey and introduced an ordinance setting new posted speeds on six arterial streets after staff said the survey justified changes; the vote was unanimous among those present (Mayor Pro Tematero absent).
The La Mirada City Council on March 10 adopted a staff engineering and traffic survey and introduced an ordinance that will change posted speed limits on six city streets, after staff said a February 2026 study justified the adjustments and the council discussed enforcement and school-adjacent pedestrian safety.
Assistant City Manager Anne Herrickson told the council the survey followed the California Vehicle Code and the California Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, and used the 80th percentile speed (rounded to the nearest 5 miles per hour) as the basis for recommendations. "The methodology used to establish a speed limit is to round the 80 fifth percentile speed to the nearest 5 miles per hour," Herrickson said, summarizing the technical approach used in the report.
The ENTS (engineering and…
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