Safer Streets: Reduction of Speed Limits affects some Bel-Air/Beverly Crest roads (Assembly Bill 43)

Los Angeles residents will be seeing speed limits being reduced on vulnerable streets. Since the State’s 85th percentile law, Los Angeles City speed limits have consistently racheted upwards. This law forced cities to increase speed limits to match illegal driver speeding behavior.

Last yar, the California State Legislature approved AB 43 (Laura Friedman, D-Glendale) which makes it legal for cities to consider the safety of vulnerable road users when setting speed limits.

The Los Angeles City Council approved a motion (Council File 21-1223) by Councilmembers Bonin, Koretz and Krekorian, to reform city speed limits based on this new state law. The Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT) determined speed limite reductions were warranted on 77 street segments (totaling 177.2 miles).

LADOT is recommending the following speed limit reductions in CD5 (with the proposed change in parentheses):

• Century Park East between Olympic Blvd. and Pico Blvd. from 40 to 35 mph;

• Deep Canyon Dr. between Mulholland Dr. and Hutton Dr. from 35 to 30 mph;

• Olympic Blvd. between Century Park East and Centinela Ave. from 40 to 35 mph;

• Overland Ave. between Coventry Pl. and Palms Blvd. from 40 to 35 mph;

• San Vicente Blvd. between Pico Blvd. and Wilshire Blvd. from 40 to 35 mph;

• Sepulveda Blvd. between City Limit n/o Ohio Avenue and Venice Blvd. from 40 to 35 mph;

• Sepulveda Blvd. between Getty Center Dr. and City Limit s/o Cashmere St. from 45 to 40 mph;

• Venice Blvd. between Cadillac Ave. and Bentley Ave. from 40 to 35 mph.

Under the new speed setting law, future reductions will be possible on streets with high rates of fatal or severe injury collisions as well as in areas with a high density of retail and commercial activity.

For more information, please see the link below:

STREETS BLOG LA “L.A. Planning to Reduce Speed Limits on 177 Miles of City Streets”