Resolution R2024-0007877
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Call for hearing(s) on lowering citywide default speed limit from 30 mph to 25 mph
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The 2024 resolution by the Committee on Pedestrian and Traffic Safety addresses Chicago's 127 traffic fatalities in 2022, 90% due to reckless driving, and the US's 40-year pedestrian death high. It proposes lowering the speed limit from 30 to 25 MPH, like other US cities, in line with CDOT's Vision Zero plan, and calls upon the Commissioner of the Department of Transportation to address the 3.8 times higher traffic death rate among Black Chicagoans.
