Asked the City Manager to confer with all relevant City staff and departments to examine the feasibility of posting advisory signage to broadly encourage a motor vehicle speed limit of 20 to 25 miles per hour on City streets

How it started

May 9, 2016 · Proposed by Councillor Carlone, Vice Mayor Devereux, and Councillor McGovern: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

May 9, 2016 · ✅ Order adopted as amended. The Council's request went to the City Manager. (one not recorded)

Present and voting at this meeting (8)

Craig A. Kelley
David Maher
Dennis Carlone
E. Denise Simmons
Jan Devereux
Leland Cheung
Nadeem Mazen
Timothy J. Toomey

Adopted by voice vote. A voice vote records the outcome, not individual positions. No member's yes or no is on the record (though a member can ask to be recorded in the negative in the minutes). Showing the members who cast recorded votes at this meeting. Rule 6 requires a roll call for spending over $50 or on any member's request; state law requires one for every vote when a member participates remotely. · photos: City of Cambridge

What’s next

⌛ No response on the docket: nothing has been filed back under this request's number. Answers sometimes arrive as other items; this ledger tracks only this one.

The document a council order

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City of Cambridge

IN CITY COUNCIL

May 9, 2016

ORDERED: That the City of Cambridge supports the efforts of the Boston City Council and encourage Mayor Walsh and Governor Baker to approve a reduced speed limit; and be it further ORDERED: That the City of Cambridge supports and joins the larger regional efforts to reduce speed limits in “thickly settled” communities; and be it further ORDERED: That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to confer with all relevant City staff and departments to examine the feasibility of posting advisory signage to broadly encourage a motor vehicle speed limit of 20 to 25 miles per hour on City streets; and be it further ORDERED: That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to report back to the City Council on this matter.

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: May 9, 2016