School speed limits are unnecessarily complicated. So many times I’ll pass a school speed limit sign and sometimes it’s just “while flashing” which is easy to understand quickly. However, other times it has in very small print conditions such as during certain times or during weekdays or even the really vague “when children present”. Sometimes I won’t notice all of the print before I pass the sign, so I’ll just do the slower school speed limit and the driver behind me starts tailgaiting me because I’m going under the limit. So I suggest instead of having these limits be conditional school speed limits, they should just be the normal limits all the time. It wouldn’t hurt people to slow down when kids aren’t present, so just make the speed limit reduced all the time on roads around the school. Additionally, if this was the case, drivers would be used to going slow and wouldn’t forget to slow down during school hours


Yeah you’re right actually, anyone, not just kids, ending up getting run over by a car is a pretty bad outcome:
Cars should never need to go above 30mph anywhere they might possibly cross paths with a pedestrian.
It’s not that cars should slow down, they should only be permitted to speed up if there’s zero risk to someone outside the vehicle
I promise you that if that became law, 95% of roads would be fenced off overnight.
I mean… isn’t that how it works in cities? Like proper cities, not American suburbs? I’m in a pretty big city right now and I don’t think I ever went above 30 mph until I entered the motorway