Speed Limit Creep Hits LA: Up and Up And Up
Written by 991KBU on July 23, 2018
The Los Angeles Times has a big story over the weekend on how the California legislature forces speed limits to go up and up and up.
Under California law … the speed limit on a major street has to be set according to the average speed of traffic … if police are to be allowed to use radar for speed enforcement.
Really … that’s the only way they can write tickets.
If the average speed goes up … the speed limit goes up.
Which makes the average speed go further up … and that makes the speed limit go up again. Some streets, including Balboa and Chandler boulevards, had not seen speed enforcement for more than a decade … because of this.
Higher average speeds forced the city to raise the speed limit to resume ticketing.
In December, the City Council raised the speed limits on 94 miles of streets, mainly in the Valley.
Under this same law … the speed limit on Kanan-Dume Road has gone up from 45 to 50 … and then from 50 to 55.
This is the same Kanan Dume Road that claimed a life yesterday …
A 24-year-old motorist from Simi Valley was killed just after midnight yesterday,
His car went off the road … northbound … just north of tunnel 1.
Manuel A. Canche’s car hit a boulder on the west set of Kanan Dume … north of the Backbine Trail parking lot.
The C H P says it is possible that drugs or alcohol may have been used by the driver … but that is up to the coroner’s test.
