Speeds Limits All Over Michigan Could Soon Change

Speed limits are very important in Michigan, and in just about every neighborhood people are looking for ways to get people to slow down and be more respectful of the assigned speed limits in different areas.

It has even gone to the point where you are starting to see speed limit signs that are odd numbers or off numbers just to get people to pay attention to the speedometer more. These odd speed limit signs such as 12 miles an hour or 7 miles an hour are meant to trigger the driver into looking at their speedometer to make sure they’re going the right speed since it’s not usual to see an oddly numbered speed limit sign.

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But now because of a new law that has been passed in Michigan, it’s quite possible that speed limit signs all over the state could start changing as local townships will start having more of a say in the speed limits placed in their areas. The new law is Public Act 33, and reads as follows:

If the county road commission, the township board, and the department of state police unanimously determine upon the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation that the speed of vehicular traffic on a county highway is greater or less than is reasonable or safe under the conditions found to exist upon any part of the highway, then acting unanimously they may establish a reasonable and safe maximum or minimum speed limit on that county highway that is effective at the times determined when appropriate signs giving notice of the speed limit are erected on the highway.

It gives the township the ability to petition to enforce a new speed limit that they see fit for their area, among other things. A full list of the new law’s objectives can be viewed here.