Crime & Safety

Three Claremont Roads Set to Finally Get Speed Limits

Three of Claremont's roads had been without a speed limit. But that will soon change.

Three Claremont’s roads, that up until recently had no official speed limit, will soon officially become 25 miles per hour speed zones after being reclassified by Caltrans as local roadways.

The reclassification means the California Vehicle Code criteria establishes of the posted speed limit for Scripps Drive, Radcliffe Drive, and Scottsbluff Drive, between Mills Avenue and Lassen Way, according to Claremont City Manager Tony Ramos.

“With the 'local road' designation, these three streets are now defined as Prima Facie Residential Districts, which are to be enforced as 25-mph speed zones,” Ramos wrote in a report.

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Claremont’s staff is in the process of updating the existing speed survey report, which the police department will provide to the traffic court to allow for enforcement of the speed limit, Ramos wrote.

The new speed zones for those streets should be in effect in about two to three weeks, according to a city report issued by Ramos on Aug. 8.

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