>Without the ability to invest in new technology, cities can’t catch up with these big technology providers and instead fall back on regulation. For example, Po

>Without the ability to invest in new technology, cities can’t catch up with these big technology providers and instead fall back on regulation. For example, Portland, Ore., Seattle, and many other cities have lowered the speed limits on residential streets to 20 miles per hour. Probably a minority view, but as a semi truck driver who is sometimes routed through residential streets that are nevertheless truck routes, I appreciate these low speed limits. Because I'm probably already going that slow, or slower, and these limits give me two benefits: cover for going that slow, and reducing motivation for people to try to zip around me. EDIT: And hey, stop trying to zip around me. :-)