Did you know that a vehicle traveling at 30 mph is about 70 percent more likely to kill a pedestrian than one driven at 25 mph? So why do so many of New York's neighborhood streets have 30 mph speed limits? Thanks to the work of NYBC and many other safe streets advocates, since 2022 cities and villages and certain towns have the authority to drop area speed limits for municipally managed streets to 25 mph, but unfortunately, there has been some confusion about what it takes to implement a local 25 mph law. It's actually quite easy and inexpensive for Cities, Villages, Towns with a population over 50,000, and Towns on the "Suburban Towns" list here.