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SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION
ITEM NO 7.17
01-14-2026
Re: Item 7.17, Consent Calendar, to be rubber-stamped by the Elk Grove City Council Dangerous trends in human transportation: speed, size, and form by Michael Monasky
January 14, 2026
Regarding speed, a public works engineer recently completed a small study in Elk Grove, and reported that most all of the public roads analyzed have traffic exceeding the posted maximum speed limits.
Table 1 shows the thirteen street segments reviewed by the traffic engineer:
Perhaps it is the fact that state law requires setting vehicular speed limits based upon the 85 th percentile
of speeds actually encountered on the roads, which puts into motion increasingly tolerated speed limits.
Maybe it is the mindset possessed by impatient drivers that these speed limits are minimums and not maximums.
I appreciate the traffic engineer’s reluctance to increase speed limits based upon anticipated pedestrian usage; but there are fewer people walking and biking who, like myself, fear being hit by a speeding motor vehicle.
Regarding size, observe the photograph taken comparing a 1980s vintage light pickup truck to what I refer to as a late-model stepladder pickup. Note how the front grill of the oversized vehicle exceeds the height of the cab on the light truck. I can only imagine which would prevail in a collision, and who would sustain the worst injuries. Perhaps the driver of the giant truck would not even see the small truck if it were immediately in front of the larger truck.
Regarding form, pedestrians and human-powered bicycles have a right to the commercial resources, our roads, that are now dominated by automobiles and other motor vehicles. How we ensure that through public policy is by decreasing vehicular speed and the size and fuel consumption of those dominant forms of transportation.
I applaud and support the intent of the engineer’s report, but I fear that as we visit this issue again we will continue to witness an obese vehicular population spinning its wheels ever faster on an overheating planet.
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