MisterF
Senior Member
That document looks at the relationship between speed and crashes, not speed limits and crashes. Big difference. Lowering speed limit without changing the design the road will do little to nothing to actually slow traffic down. People respond to their built environment and driving is no exception - most drivers drive the speed that feels right, not the speed that a sign tells them to. Traffic on the narrow residential streets near downtown doesn't tend to go much over 30 anyway since they're narrow and weren't designed for driving. Speeds are much higher in the subdivisions of Etobicoke because the streets were built to make driving easy. Lowering the speed limits there would make little difference.Far less serious 'accidents'. See: http://www.swov.nl/rapport/Factsheets/UK/FS_Speed.pdf and possibly fewer accidents too.