To prevent car accidents related to speed, New York City lowers speed limit to 25 mph on key roads in 5 boroughs
During the Covid-19 lock-down, NYC car accident deaths and motorcyclist deaths related to reckless behavior, mostly speeding, increased. City officials were expecting fatalities to go down as the city was getting more active again but statistics show that instead traffic accident fatalities surged after the lock-down.
As a result the DOT announced yesterday that it was lowering the city speed limit from 30 mph to 25 mph on the most dangerous roads of the 5 New York City boroughs on:
- Riverside Drive from 165th street to 181st street in Manhattan