According to WRIC 8 News, a new speed limit will become effective on July 1, 2024 in Virginia. Speed limits in a business or residential district will be as low as 15 miles per hour on Virginia highways.
Governor Glenn Youngkin signed the bill into law allowing localities to reduce speed limits in an effort to reduce pedestrian fatalities.
Pedestrian fatalities
Delegate Betsy Carr (D-Richmond) told 8News that ‘there is a national epidemic of pedestrian fatalities due to speeding.”
Carr’s bill, which was signed into law allows localities to reduce speed limits to as low as 15 miles per hour on state-owned highways that go through residential and commercial areas.
Morgan Dean with AAA explained:
“This law gives communities some options and it gives them a chance to recognize that [with] traffic safety, there is not always one size fits all, it gives them another option to try and make those roads safer.”
Dean said speed is a factor in almost half of the traffic-related fatalities in Virginia.
None of the current vehicles are designed to travel at 15 mph, you can’t even idle that slow. This new law is ridiculous, 25 mph is hard enough.
65 !!!!
Drivers are not always at fault. Tourons love to play frogger in the summer.
Typo
50 East should be 35 mph from Salisbury to OC
I can’t Drive 55 !!!!