To kick off the month of May, the Chicago City Council's Committee on Pedestrian and Traffic Safety held a hearing about whether the city should consider dropping its current arterial street speed limit.
At the time of writing, it's currently set at 30 miles per hour within city limits. In more and more neighborhoods, particularly in higher-income residential areas on the North Side, you'll most definitely feel it if you're going too fast. Why? The speed humps there seem to be multiplying. Some are so big that if you hit them with a car or bike that you've lowered (or worse still, has an underslung exhaust), you'd best be operating at crawling speed.
