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April 22, 2025

Trump's transportation officials buck a long-held practice of using ‘road diets' to slow speeders

  • Removing lanes to slow down speeding drivers is a long-embraced strategy for improving safety on city streets.
    • By JEFF McMURRAY
    Associated Press

    AP Photo/Charlie Riedel [enlarge]
    Kansas City implemented a “road diet” for its 31st Street, cutting it from four lanes to two, in an effort to reduce speeding and accidents.

    A stylist was just starting her shift at a salon in Kansas City, Missouri, when a car smashed through the storefront window and landed in the waiting area a few feet away.


     
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