The bill is mainly aimed at lowering road fatalities for pedestrians, state Sen. Carol Alvarado, D-Houston, who authored the legislation.
In short, the bill would grant cities the same authority as counties if passed. Current state laws permit cities to lower the speed limit to 25 mph only after conducting costly traffic studies and this bill would help bypass this requirement, Alvarado said in a hearing last month.
“I want Texas cities to be allowed to set safe residential speed limits and design neighborhood streets where kids can safely live their whole childhoods,” Sokolic testified. and other cities, and could “make people so miserable that they switch to mass transit, walking or biking.”
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