Safety experts fight tickets
Two safety experts ticketed for speeding in Ann Arbor this year are urging a judge to dismiss the citations, arguing that the city’s speed limits are unsafe and illegal under state law. They did not argue that a statute allows a city to supersede state law in setting limits. But they did assert that “the only logical method for determining a safe speed limit on an urban roadway … under the jurisdiction of a local authority like the city of Ann Arbor is to allow that local authority to make individualized determinations based on the recommendations of its traffic engineers.”
