Comment by Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radio on Found a Minimum Speed Limit sign in the middle of my town.

You should check with the road authority because they might be fake.

One day I was driving down a road that I’d driven down many times when I spotted a new speed limit. It was posted in a weird location and the speed was odd.

I contacted the local main roads department and learnt that they didn’t know about these signs. The next day they were gone.

Agreed, having a minimum speed sign on a stroad is just begging for pedestrian deaths. It would be such an obvious liability that nobody in charge of transportation would allow it.

Every municipality has a minimum speed limit so you can’t just have someone driving 1km/h down the road creating a rolling blockade. Most are posted on the entrance into the municipality.

There are reasons for both sides to have and not have specific laws.

And on certain roads they set a specific limit, other times its blanket low amount to make things easier, or as you said, a non specific law, so they can ticket you for essentially anything instead…

Where are these municipalities?

These are US signs and this isn’t a thing anywhere that I have traveled to across the US other than the 40 minimum on some interstates and highways.

Every municipality has some form of minimum speed law, do you want me to list every single one? You even provide an example of places they are used… and want to argue they don’t exist…? What?

Can you provide an example of a place without any minimum speed laws?

In Kansas, every single street that isn’t a highway, and most highways don’t have minimums.

Outside of Kansas I have never personally seen them posted on anything other than highways either.

I have seen general traffic laws about not impeding traffic by going unreasonably slow, but no posted minimums.

Maybe brush up on your traffic laws dude

Kansas allows ANY municipality to set specific minimum road limits… look at that!

Again, can you provide a municipality or even a state that doesn’t have a minimum speed law? I’ve even made it easier for you.

In Ohio it’s always 20 less than current max, they just teach you it in drivers ed rather than posting it

I’m a traffic engineer and I’ve literally never heard of such a thing (except on freeways).

In Georgia it’s illegal to travel 15 or more under the posted speed limit, including on non interstate roads, unless otherwise posted.

Edit: getting downvoted for saying facts about my state. Yall are weird

Must make turning corners, parking and dealing with hazards a wild experience.

In Sweden it can be illegal to drive too slowly. You’re not allow to hinder trafic and should follow the speed limit. At the same time we have tractors and vehicles that are only allowed to drive in 30km/h but they require a special sign on the back to signal to other people that it’s a slowly moving vehicle.

It’s however incredibly rare that anyone gets a ticket for driving too slow.

Also, they have to move off the road if space permits to let piled up traffic overtake, at least in Austria.

That sounds so reasonable. And yet I have never seen one in any country, state, or city I’ve been in.

Where I’m from it’s just 20 less than the max. Conditions apply but that’s because they reduce the max

I believe in Denmark the rule is just not to be a nuisance in traffic. I’m not sure a lower limit is that necessary.

That can’t be common. And I’ve definitely seen minimum speed signs that persisted for years so I don’t find them suspicious at all

Freeways/expressways around me are 45 mph minimum. They are normally mounted below the limit sign.

https://www.twincities.com/2015/05/20/more-than-700-miles-of-interstates-in-wisconsin-to-be-70-mph/

But I have seen small tack on signs that are the same in most regards.

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SPEED_LIMIT_75mph_MINIMUM_SPEED_50mph_NO_TOLERANCE.png

https://www.epermittest.com/road-signs/minimum-speed-limit

Supposedly minimum speed limit signs do exist in California? No issue with checking anyway, I was curious is all

40 is an example of the minimum on the interstate highway.

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