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A roughly five- by five-block area straddling Clinton Hill and Bed Stuy, pictured above, will become a “slow zone,” meaning the speed limit will be reduced from 30 miles and hour to 20. The city will also add speed bumps.

This zone was selected because of “strong community support,” four schools, eight preschools and daycare centers, and an average of 62.4 injuries a year, including six severe or fatal ones, according to the Department of Transportation. On Thursday, the mayor announced 15 slow zones throughout the city, including in Brooklyn Heights, Brownsville, Crown Heights and Prospect Heights. The purpose of the slow zones is to reduce pedestrian fatalities from speeding cars.

“A pedestrian hit at 40 mph has a 70 percent chance of dying, while a pedestrian hit at 30 mph has an 80 percent chance of surviving,” said a story in DNAinfo.


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  1. True enough. We have trucks on Washington all the time, however–and when they repaved and replaced the two speed bumps they didn’t bother to mark them. So now we just have cars (and trucks) speeding over them.

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