Sentences with phrase «reduced speed limits»

They are also subjected to reduced speed limits while they are learning.

European countries implemented these technological requirements as well, but also more aggressively reduced speed limits in entire neighborhoods, created car free zones, reduced car parking, and implemented other policies that encourage behavioral shifts.

Dr Blackman said despite reduced speed limits, crash rates and crash severity around roadwork sites were high because drivers failed to slow sufficiently and were often not paying attention.

Making Streets Safer through Vision Zero: In 2015, New York City saw the fewest traffic fatalities in history, with a 22 % reduction resulting from reduced speed limits and comprehensive safety plans.

THE BRONX — Concrete barriers and reduced speed limits are among the safety measures being added to a dangerous stretch of the Bronx River Parkway where seven family members died in a car crash Sunday.

Spurred by recent train derailments that have lead to explosions and oil spills, law makers are thinking about reducing the speed limit trains carrying oil can travel.

Bloomberg wants NYC drivers to slow down, and has created «slow zones» in more than a dozen neighborhoods, reducing speed limits from 30 to 20 mph, to force them to do so.

The state noted a number of safety measures, including reducing the speed limit, were already put in place in 2015, shortly after a car hit and killed a child in the park.

The unfinished progressive priorities Cuomo set for himself after negotiating the state budget and in the State of the State were mere afterthoughts in the last week, when lawmakers instead focused on some lower - hanging fruit: a package to combat the heroin epidemic, a pause on Common Core - based teacher evaluations and a bill to let New York City reduce its speed limit to 25 m.p.h.

Sen. Andrew Lanza, a Republican, told Capital that his bill — which he said should pass the Senate this afternoon — fit neatly with the city's measure to let its Department of Transportation reduce the speed limit to 25 miles per hour.

With her help the mayor promptly enacted many pieces of progressive legislation that matter deeply to his base and will impact millions of New Yorkers: an expansion of paid sick time, a reduced speed limit as part of his Vision Zero program, a municipal ID program for undocumented immigrants.

The Homer Town Board, during its meeting Wednesday evening, learned the NYS Department of Transportation has approved reducing the speed limit on Cosmos Hill Road from 55 to 40 mph.

A bill to reduce the speed limit on Mapleton Road from 55 mph to 45 mph passed the Senate this year but was shelved in an Assembly committee.

CHESTERTOWN The Chester Town Board authorized the application to reduce the speed limit on Olmsteadville Road in a three - quarter mile section of road where there is a history of accidents.

Town officials are looking into ways to reduce the speed limit on Hemmingford Road.

Resolution 5 authorized an application top reduce the speed limit on Olmsteadville Road in Pottersville.

Now the city is really throwing down the gauntlet: it announced this week its plan to reduce speed limits throughout the city to 30 kilometres (18 miles) per hour.

Consideration of whether or not accident deaths would be most reduced by reducing speed limits is inhibited by accepting the consensus that «speed kills».

So, reducing speed limits may be a good way to reduce accidental deaths, but something else may be better.

In fact, the only reasons I can think of for NOT reducing the speed limit were captured in the comments in the post a year ago:

One of the first recommendations included reducing speed limits.

It seems like common sense that reducing the speed limit would reduce the number of car accidents on city streets and highways.

This doesn't tell you when the school zone speed limit is in effect, but it should alert you to keep an eye out for children and to look for the road signs that indicate when the reduced speed limit is required.

Because it is the secondary route from one end to the other end of the island, Jones Ave can be busy at times and the city has taken steps to slow it down by reducing the speed limit to 20mph and placing stop signs at some of the busier intersections.

Not exact matches

A speed limit reduction will cascade throughout UNP's operations reducing operational efficiency as switching and loading stations wait longer for the slower oil trains.

Thus we support a reduction in the speed limit because it will «save 7,466 lives every year,» though we would not do so if we recognized that such a law merely reduces the probability that an individual will die in a car accident from.0005 to.0004, a benefit too trivial to be noticed and, for any individual faced with the choice, far below the value of the additional driving time it entails.

Deaths from automobile accidents dropped 25 % over a period of months, presumably because of reduced traffic and lower speed limits.

The 55 mph speed limit is a value of and for highway driving, because it reduces the risk of highway accident (and hence exemplifies the value of preserving human life).

For instance, Congress required states to reduce highway speed limits to 55 and enforce the lower limits or risk having funding withheld.

If police everywhere were uniformly citing drivers for exceeding the speed limit by a few mph or kph, then there would be public pressure to either a) raise the speed limit, b) reduce enforcement, or c) reduce the cost of the citations.

The 55 mph speed limit was originally designed to reduce fuel usage.

ALBANY — A bill that would reduce the New York City speed limit from 30 mph to 25 mph hit a sudden roadblock Wednesday when Republican state Senate leader Dean...

ALBANY — A Staten Island senator is holding up a bill to reduce New York City's speed limit because he wants city officials to get on board with his longstanding proposal to require stop signs around schools.

ALBANY — A bill that would reduce the New York City speed limit from 30 mph to 25 mph hit a sudden roadblock Wednesday when Republican state Senate leader Dean Skelos said he wasn't sure it would even come up for a vote.

One measure, passed by the City Council in October, reduced the citywide speed limit from 30 miles per hour to 25.

But even Ms. Rose expressed reservations about reducing the citywide speed limit, saying she didn't want the measure to become a «revenue scheme.»

The speed limit will be lowered to 25 m.p.h. and traffic signals will be retimed to reduce opportunities for dangerous speeding.

The don also commended the efforts of the Federal Road Safety Commission [FRSC] in preventing and reducing road accidents through the implementation of speed limits but however, recommended the adoption of Intelligent Transport Systems [ITS] in Nigeria as operated in developed countries.

«Through the Governor's ongoing leadership, this new funding for homeowners and actions to reduce boating speed limits will help homeowners recover as we reduce risks associated with coastal erosion.»

Beginning today, vessels operating within 600 feet of shore must observe a 5 mile per hour speed limit to reduce impacts to shoreline residences and infrastructure caused by wave action and to promote safe boating.

Participants chose plans to reduce their distractive behavior by matching «if» statements such as «if I am tempted to drive faster than the speed limit while on the highway» with «then» statements such as «then I will remind myself that it is dangerous and illegal to do so.»

«Variable speed limits could reduce crashes, ease congestion in highway work zones.»

With assistance from the Missouri Department of Transportation, Praveen Edara, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering in the MU College of Engineering, tested the use of variable advisory speed limit (VASL) systems and the effect they may have on lessening congestion and reducing rear - end and lane - changing accidents on a fairly dangerous stretch of I - 270, a major four - lane highway in St. Louis.

QUT researcher Dr Ross Blackman speed limit credibility is put at risk when reduced limits are in place at inactive roadwork sites.

If you're speeding 30 miles over the speed limit today on the highway, reducing that, you know, all of these lifestyle things that we're going to recommend you anyway, go ahead and get started on some of those now.

Reducing your negative inputs if you're taking the fast lane to work and you're doing 30 miles an hour over the speed limit.

Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, the speed limit was set at a paltry 35 mph in an effort to reduce gasoline and rubber consumption.

I know that rpm is limited by an average piston speed of roughly 25 m / s, and reducing stroke allows for higher rpm, since it lowers piston speeds.

The S model receives an electronic limited - slip differential that reduces inside wheel speed during cornering acceleration and stabilizes the rear end during hard braking.

Core pickup buyers, or those who use their trucks for work purposes, also are changing their driving habits, including reducing their speed and limiting their use of air conditioning, Ford research shows.