Just a quick follow up on Decatur’s 25 MPH Speed Limit proposal, which we we reported on in regards to the Citizen Survey a few days back.  (BTW, that post has gone sorta viral since then – both Streetsblog and Planetizen have picked it up)

The City of Decatur Project Manager Lena Stevens tells us that the 25 MPH plan is still alive within the walls of City Hall.

She states that the city is still working through the many questions involved in implementing such a proposal, but one idea on the table is that the city would work with the Georgia Department of Transportation in a pilot program where a selected neighborhood would change its speed limits to 25 MPH as a test case before any wide-spread changes were implemented.

Stevens says the plan is still in development and no neighborhood has been selected at this point.

Stay tuned!

Another interesting “special topic” question from Decatur’s 2014 Citizen Survey.

As you can see, over half of Decatur residents either strongly or somewhat support a 25 mph speed limit on Decatur roads.  Notice the question says “most” Decatur road.  State route speed limits, like Scott Boulevard, are controlled by the state.

After the jump, you can view from a proposed map, which was taken from the city’s Speed Limit study from a couple of years back.  As you can see, basically all Decatur residential streets would be affected if Decatur implemented this new across-the-board speed limit of 25 mph.  The city held public input sessions on this topic back in 2013. If the city moves forward with this change at some point in the future, the major change would be on 35 mph streets, like Commerce, Clairemont, College, South Candler, West Howard, etc.

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