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# Would You Support A 20 MPH Speed Limit Over Much Of Our Area?
- URL: https://bklyner.com/would-you-support-a-20-mph-speed-limit-over-much-of-our-area-ditmas-park/
- Published: 2013-11-14T17:00:44.000Z
- Updated: 2014-09-30T05:31:03.000Z
- Author: Nora Whelan
- Tags: WNYC, #API-Imported

![wnyc 20 mph street map](/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Screen-Shot-2013-11-14-at-10.07.06-AM.png)

During a City Council meeting [held two weeks ago on the topic of pedestrian safety](http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/grieving-park-slope-mom-moves-council-tears-article-1.1502862?ref=bklyner.com), DOT Assistant Commissioner [Kate Slevin](http://blog.tstc.org/2012/06/13/tstc-executive-director-appointed-as-assistant-commissioner-for-intergovernmental-affairs-at-nycdot/?ref=bklyner.com) explained to local politicians that while in general changes to speed limits on NYC’s residential streets must be passed at a state level, limits of 15-24 miles per hour can easily be enforced *without legislature* on blocks within 1/4 mile of a school.

[WNYC has since mapped](http://www.wnyc.org/story/map-new-york-city-school-zones/?ref=bklyner.com) all of the blocks in New York that fall under that category–and as it turns out, 71% of Brooklyn streets and 55% of streets citywide qualify. Our area is really mostly covered, including Coney Island Avenue almost entirely from Avenue H to Beverley Road, Cortelyou from CIA to nearly Flatbush, Church from Flatbush to Stratford, and other problem areas like a long stretch of Dorchester Road.

So, would you support putting a 20 MPH speed limit in effect over a huge portion of the neighborhood, or would it be more trouble than it’s worth?

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*Image via [WNYC](http://project.wnyc.org/speed-zones/?ref=bklyner.com)*