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Amsterdam preparing to lower speed limit to 30 kilometers per hour (nltimes.nl)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Forgive my ignorance, as someone who lives in cities where speed limits are regularly over 110kph, is 30 kph not painful slow?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's been the speed limit in Dublin city centre now for some time. The logic is that collisions with humans are rarely fatal at that speed. Tbh it is slow but you're not exactly going fast within the city limits in old European cities anyway.

Outside the city it's normal speed limits here. 50 in towns. 80 most places. 120 on the motorway.

Edit: that's 30 / 50 / 75 in mph

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Ah make sense. Thank you