23 points

This is 100% to make the city unwalkable

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If you can’t walk down a sidewalk with cars going by at 30mph then there’s something wrong with you.

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9 points

30 mph is almost 50 km/h. In most of Europe the default maximum speed limit inside of populated areas is 50 km/h.

Default meaning artillery roads like this one can and almost always do have higher limits than 50, but the defsult maximum suddenly becoming the minimum makes no sense.

A road that isn’t physically barricaded from foot trafic akin to a highway has no reason to have a minimum speed limit over 15 mph (30 km/h), if at all.

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Yet another reason, I’m glad I don’t live in Europe. I like y’alls privacy laws, but besides that your entire lives revolve on wrapping yourselves in bubble wrap praying the government will save you from whatever.

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3 points

artillery roads

Judging by the pot holes, that is?

I know I know, making fun of autocorrect typos is such a vein form of humor.

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30mph (48kmh) is the minimum, cars will also be going faster than that. Also, people need to cross the street, not just walk alongside it. Regardless, whether drivers or pedestrians are the issue, accidents happen. They are more likely to happen, and more likely to be fatal as vehicle speed increases.

From the Institute for Road Safety Research, page 2:
“According to an overview of recent studies (Rósen et al., 2011): at a collision speed of 20 km/h nearly all pedestrians survive a crash with a passenger car; about 90% survive at a collision speed of 40 km/h, at a collision speed of 80 km/h the number of survivors is less than 50%, and at a collision speed of 100 km/h only 10% of the pedestrians survive.”

Areas with minimum speeds of 30mph in areas with pedestrians accept that at least 1 in 10 will die. This is easily reduced to negligible fatalities by having lower speed limits. Not doing so says we care more about saving some of the drivers’ time than the lives of pedestrians.

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6 points

That has to be a misprint or a photoshop. There is zero chance of a minimum 30 mph (or kph) inside city limits, especially with a perpendicular entrance/exit right there.

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5 points

Maybe the installer didn’t notice it said minimum haha

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3 points

Not photoshop, you can go there and see it.

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0 points

WHERE

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6 points

Bethesda, MD

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14 points

Sorry for running over your child, ma’am, but rules are rules.

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99 points

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.

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52 points

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.

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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.

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6 points

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.

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41 points

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

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

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4 points

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

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2 points

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

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13 points

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

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7 points

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

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

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-6 points

Maybe there’s a local problem with cruising for prostitution?

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I see your logic and had the same thought, but then wouldn’t a “No stopping at anytime”/“No parking” sign accomplish the same thing? “No Loitering” sign as well. If the point is for the cop to be able to point to a sign, those already exist and are much more broad and easy to use(or misuse, depending on your perspective). Like others said, an absolute minimum speed limit seems destined to harm pedestrians. Plus, you can see it’s before a stoplight. So not even logical.

I’m betting this is a fake sign.

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