Council Raises Speed Limits on 3 Streets

Speed limits on several Moorpark streets will inch upward under a resolution approved by the City Council.

The council voted late Wednesday to raise, by 5 mph, speed limits on three streets, including one of the city’s main thoroughfares.

In a sense, the move was intended to slow drivers down. Judges have sometimes thrown out speeding citations in cases where the posted limit was substantially lower than the speed of most cars on the road, according to the Moorpark division of the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department. In specific, if a posted speed limit is more than 5 mph slower than 85% of the cars on that stretch of road, the limit becomes difficult to enforce.

Wednesday’s action raised the limit on busy Tierra Rejada Road, from Spring Road to the city’s eastern border, to 50 mph. Both Commerce Avenue, between Gabbert Road and Poindexter Avenue, and University Drive, from Collins Drive to Griffith Lane, will now have posted limits of 30 mph.