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Amsterdam: Speed limit will be 30 km/h on most roads from today (www.amsterdam.nl)

submitted 11 months ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/europe@feddit.de

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[–] jtr42@feddit.de 23 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm not aware of any german politician wanting to implement a general speed limit of 30 in every/any city. Instead there is an attempt to allow cities/mayors/city planners to implement speed limits on individual streets for a variety of reasons. As of now many reasons like noise, risk to other road users, even schools/kindergartens in the vicinity are often not sufficient to warrant an individual speed limit according to road traffic regulations.

[–] Inktvip@lemm.ee 6 points 11 months ago

The workaround Germans seem to have discovered is to have roadworks that last indefinitely.