San Diego committee approves speed limit reductions on 20% of city streets in push to end traffic deaths

SAN DIEGO — Matt Keenan was riding his bike to a nearby movie theater on Camino Del Rio South in Mission Valley in 2021 when a driver struck and killed him. The posted speed limit was 35 miles per hour.

“I’m here today because my husband was killed in a preventable traffic crash,” Laura Keenan, whose husband was killed on that street, said Thursday at a news conference. “And because no other family should have to live with this kind of loss.”

San Diego’s Active Transportation and Infrastructure Committee voted Thursday to approve a Comprehensive Speed Management Plan that would reduce speed limits across more than 679 centerline miles, roughly 20 percent of the city’s entire road network. The plan now goes to the full City Council for a vote…

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