Residents of Tallinn have rejected mayor Mihhail Kolvart’s proposal to limit driving speed within city limits to 40 km/h, forcing the municipality to look for other ways to control road traffic speed.
The proposal to limit driving speed in Tallinn to 40 km/h was presented in autumn 2019. The idea was justified with how several other countries used this method to control transport flow and increase capacity of roads.
However, survey results show that Tallinn resident are unhappy with such changes. Because of that, Kolvart decided instead to propose the use traffic lights and electronic road signs to control road traffic.
“I think that’s the future, that systematically, you can adjust traffic based on what’s going on,” he declared. (ERR/Business World Magazine)