SPOKANE, Wash. — The City of Spokane will soon have some new signage to encourage drivers to slow down and obey the speed limit.
On Monday night, Spokane City Council voted to approve the $6,000 purchase of newly designed street signs through the city’s ‘Safe Streets for All’ fund.
The signs read “Slow down – No need to speed” and “Slow down – Your neighbors notice your speed.”
The signs are meant for people to place in their yards in hopes drivers will go the speed limit in Spokane’s neighborhoods.
The signs are the result of an ongoing discussion about speed limit signs that began earlier this fall.
The originally proposed signage used the phrase ‘Slow the flock down,’ with pictures of birds on the signs.
Many residents voiced their dislike of the signs’ wordplay and said it was inappropriate. The new signs do not use the word “flock,” but still feature birds.
Councilmember Bingle said the purchase of these signs is a good start, but that there is room to improve.
“I think there’s a lot of good ideas for this,” he said. “Finding a way to make [designing] it a competition for children or whomever is a really good idea. I think being able to have the individual speed limit signs on there too, to remind people what the speed limit is, I think that all works.”
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