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2013-11-27 -Land of the Free

NYC Council Working to Reduce Speed Limit on City Streets

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Posted by Fred 2013-11-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 How about 5 MPH? That would be even safer, right?

Posted by Raj 2013-11-27 01:21|| 2013-11-27 01:21|| Front Page Top

#2 How about no driving? That will do it.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2013-11-27 02:01|| 2013-11-27 02:01|| Front Page Top

#3 Hmmm. 148 pedestrian fatalities is roughly 1 every other day in a city of 8 million people. Doesn't seem particularly high, off hand. Gotta wonder how many take place on residential streets vs main thoroughfares.

Hey, you don't suppose this is all about revenue generation, do you? (100 tickets/day * $100/ticket * 300 days = 3 million dollars)

Posted by SteveS 2013-11-27 03:32|| 2013-11-27 03:32|| Front Page Top

#4 How many of those pedestrians were looking at their phone when they were hit?

How many of the drivers were looking at their phone when they hit the pedestrian?

Posted by Airandee 2013-11-27 09:01|| 2013-11-27 09:01|| Front Page Top

#5 Last time I drove in NYC I found it darned near impossible to get UP to 20 mph. On neighborhood streets OR parkways/expressways.

Posted by Glenmore 2013-11-27 09:40|| 2013-11-27 09:40|| Front Page Top

#6 Real hard to get the horse to maintain 20 mph. Just saying.

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-11-27 10:23|| 2013-11-27 10:23|| Front Page Top

#7 Obviously they need revenue, tickets will do it,, No need too be fair.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2013-11-27 12:53|| 2013-11-27 12:53|| Front Page Top

#8 What's slower than gridlock?

Posted by BrerRabbit 2013-11-27 14:14|| 2013-11-27 14:14|| Front Page Top

#9 Given the New Yorker's habit of taking a step and a half off the curb then turning the head to see what's coming, things could be worse.

Posted by Grunter 2013-11-27 17:19|| 2013-11-27 17:19|| Front Page Top

#10 Drive in Manhattan everytime I go back to LI. Never have got up to above 20MPH except when past 3rd St. heading to the tunnel. What a joke. They want you to slow down for DeBlasio's resurrection of the New Squeeze Man.

Posted by Jack is Back! 2013-11-27 18:00|| 2013-11-27 18:00|| Front Page Top

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