A5274

New Jersey A5274 allows municipalities and counties to lower speed limits on certain roads without conducting engineering and traffic investigations.

New Jersey A5274 authorizes municipalities and counties to reduce speed limits on roads with a speed limit of 35 miles per hour or less that are in school zones or high-pedestrian areas. The bill requires municipalities and counties to indicate the criteria used to determine if a road is a high-pedestrian area, considering the use of the surrounding land and context. The bill prohibits reducing the speed limit more than once on the same portion of a road and limits the minimum speed limit to 15 miles per hour.