How are speed limits calculated?
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Ideally the way it works is that traffic engineers conduct a speed study where they take into account a bunch of different factors including measuring the average speed of motorists on the roadway (if it already exists) and then come up with a recommendation that’s used to set the speed limit.
What happens a lot of the time is that some retiree decides that the cars are going too fast down a given road and starts calling up their local government to complain about it. Old people are vastly more likely to turn up and vote in local elections and so they tend to get their way when it comes to city/county level issues like speed limits.
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