New drive to reduce traffic speed in towns to 30km/h

A new campaign backed by the United Nations seeks to reduce the official speed limit in urban areas to 30 kilometres per hour.

In Kenya and most countries, the speed limit in urban places is 50km/h, but only reduces to 30km/h near schools.

The campaign comes at the start of the sixth UN Global Road Safety Week, which commences Tuesday and ends on May 23.

New drive to reduce traffic speed in towns to 30km/h (the-star.co.ke)

Badly designed roads lead to this - if doing 50kp/h is currently an issue, how about 30kp/h? Soon we will be required to do 10kp/h because of the road and settlement designs are not well thought out.

That’s 18.75 miles per hour, we do 20m/h in school zones , 30k/h is just bs.

It won’t matter much to reduce the limit, just punish the law breakers.

Driving long distance will be a nightmare since the traffic cops will expect one to slow down to 30kp/h at every small trading centre