The Hudson Common Council has been talking about reducing the speed limit in our city since 2020, even before the State of New York adopted legislation allowing cities to lower their speed limits. It appears we are getting closer in making that happen. Part of the process of lowering the speed limit is doing a speed limit evaluation. At the beginning of the year, Creighton Manning was hired to do that evaluation. Their draft report was submitted at the beginning of the month and can be viewed here.
Based on the findings of the evaluation, the recommendation is to reduce the speed limit to 25 mph throughout the city except in one spot: on Route 9G when it enters the city from the south.
Reducing the speed limit is one of the agenda items for Thursday's Common Council Legal Committee meeting, which begins at 6:00 p.m. The meeting is a hybrid, taking place in person at City Hall and on Microsoft Teams. Click here for the link to join the meeting remotely.
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Has anyone asked Chief Franklin how this will alter her department's approach to enforcing the speed limit downtown? Will the enforcement go from nothing to still nothing?
ReplyDeleteAnother thing that we ought to emulate out of Albany that I noticed the other day: SPEED CAMERAS and signs indicting so. Hell, just the signs alone are a deterrent to speeding. At some point, Hudson will have to invest in speed cameras -- it's just weird that the topic is never brought up at council meetings. It is as if HPD wouldn't be interested in that approach. It's easier just to lower the speed limit and hope for the best, I guess.