{"id":731841,"date":"2026-04-16T09:59:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T09:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/731841\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T09:59:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T09:59:13","slug":"phoenix-is-moving-to-lower-speed-limits-across-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/731841\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix is moving to lower speed limits across the city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHOENIX \u2014 Phoenix councilmembers on the Transportation, Infrastructure, and Planning Subcommittee <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hZXGXxz34OA&amp;t=1640s\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">unanimously approved<\/a> lowering speed limits in multiple corridors across the city after traffic studies found some roads are too fast for current conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the biggest changes are in neighborhoods where homes face the street, with roads like Maryland Avenue, Osborn Road, and Yorkshire Drive all potentially dropping to 25 mph.<\/p>\n<p><b>The proposed changes that were voted on include:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul class=\"rte2-style-ul\" data-ogsb=\"white\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Web (West European)&quot;, -apple-system, &quot;system-ui&quot;, Roboto, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; text-align: left; background-color: white !important;\">\n<li>Maryland Avenue (43rd Avenue to Black Canyon Freeway): Reduce from 30 mph to 25 mph<\/li>\n<li>Osborn Road (40th Street to 56th Street): Reduce from 30 mph to 25 mph<\/li>\n<li>Yorkshire Drive (40th Avenue to 35th Avenue): Reduce from 35 mph to 25 mph<\/li>\n<li>Grant Street (Black Canyon Freeway to Lincoln Street: Reduce from 35 mph to 30 mph<\/li>\n<li>Lincoln Street (Grant Street to 7th Street): Reduce from 35 mph to 30 mph<\/li>\n<li>59th Avenue (Thomas to Indian School roads) Reduce from 40 mph to 35 mph<\/li>\n<li>Deer Valley Drive (35th Avenue to .25 miles east of 19th Avenue): Reduce from 45 mph to 40 mph<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See the full list of recommended changes and locations\u00a0<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/phoenix.legistar.com\/View.ashx?M=F&amp;ID=15350762&amp;GUID=E934F019-BFDC-49D4-A15D-2B5122EE8D92\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The changes will still need to go before the full city council for a final vote.<\/p>\n<p>Speed is a contributing factor in nearly one in every three crashes on Arizona roads, according to <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/azdot.gov\/news\/traffic-fatalities-arizona-dip-slightly-2023\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arizona Department of Transportation statistics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc15.com\/news\/operation-safe-roads\/need-for-speed-city-survey-asks-for-drivers-speed-limit-opinions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Last year<\/a>, the City of Phoenix asked drivers to weigh in on speed limits around the city.<\/p>\n<p>The city also <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc15.com\/news\/operation-safe-roads\/traffic-cameras-returning-to-phoenix-starting-in-february-targeting-speeding-drivers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recently implemented speed cameras<\/a> in some areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX \u2014 Phoenix councilmembers on the Transportation, Infrastructure, and Planning Subcommittee unanimously approved lowering speed limits in multiple&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":731842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-731841","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-phoenix","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116413803670060196","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=731841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/731842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}