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Baxter accepts guidance on speed limits, dynamic signs and traffic-calming options
Summary
The council accepted staff guidance on citywide speed limits, stop-sign policy, dynamic speed-feedback signs and speed humps. A traffic engineer emphasized that lowering posted limits alone rarely changes behavior without physical calming measures and recommended studies before installing stop signs or dynamic signage.
Dustin, a traffic engineer with SC, presented guidance and best practices on citywide speed limits and traffic-calming tools and the council accepted the guidance as part of the consent agenda.
What was presented: Dustin outlined statutory authority (Minn. Stat. 169.14) that allows cities to set a 20–25 mph statutory limit on local residential streets. He stressed that statutory changes on their own often do not change driver behavior on wide, high-operating-speed streets and that complementary engineering…
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