Tempe may require drivers to slow down on city streets by reducing speed limits, something staffers say is necessary to do away with limits that abruptly change on certain roads and to update outdated speed guidelines on roads that aren’t used as they were in the past.
The changes wouldn’t be particularly drastic. They would affect just five roadways and only one of those would see a speed limit change of more than 5 mph, but Tempe’s Principal Civil Engineer Catherine Hollow said it’s a long-needed update to outdated speed rules.
“This is not a strategy to reduce high speeds. This is taking a look at how the roadway function has changed over time … (we’re) really trying to right-size the speeds to match what is happening,” she said…