As part of the Sarasota City Commission’s directive to develop a traffic calming plan, a speed study by the consultant tapped to spearhead the work has completed a speed study for all local, collector and arterial roadways throughout the city.
The idea was to identify average speeds on the various types of roadways and, following state statutes, set speed limits accordingly. Roadways where speeding is identified as a problem, then, will be subject to coming traffic calming measures resulting from the data.
The study’s recommendation is to reduce the speed limits to 20 miles per hour on local roads such as neighborhood streets, and to set maximum speed limits of 35 miles per hour on other roadways, excluding the interstate connectors and U.S. 301, from 17th Street north to the city limit…