A lawyer is coming out against lowering speed limits after a polling company found most British Columbians want slower speeds on residential streets.
Research Co. found more than half of British Columbians favour lower speed in neighbourhoods to address what they see as chronic speeding.
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But Acumen Law’s Kyla Lee says for speeders the speed limit is already being ignored, so reducing it makes little sense.
“The reality is that we don’t see police enforcing speed limits on these quiet residential streets,” she said. “They are not parked there with their radar guns, they are not driving those streets to look for speeders, they are not doing proactive patrols, they are limiting those things to the more dense, congested streets – the main roadways and highways where they are more likely to catch speeders.”
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