{"id":14817,"date":"2011-12-19T12:40:53","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T20:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/kent-to-lower-speed-limit-along-west-meeker-street\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T18:35:28","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T01:35:28","slug":"kent-to-lower-speed-limit-along-west-meeker-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-to-lower-speed-limit-along-west-meeker-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent to lower speed limit along West Meeker Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Kent drivers will soon see a lower speed limit along West Meeker Street between Washington Avenue South and Russell Road.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The Kent City Council approved Dec. 13 a staff recommendation to drop the speed limit from 40 mph to 35 mph along that stretch of the road.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>City staff recommended the lower speed limit because of traffic congestion along West Meeker as well as increased commercial and retail development. The staff report indicated that the street has a lot of driveways that lead to potential conflict points between vehicles.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The speed limit will remain 40 mph along West Meeker between Russell Road and State Route 516, also known as Kent-Des Moines Road.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><small><a style=\"color: #0000ff;text-align: left\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=west+meeker+street&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=W+Meeker+St,+Kent&amp;gl=us&amp;t=h&amp;z=14&amp;vpsrc=0&amp;ll=47.381252,-122.253703&amp;source=embed\">View Larger Map<\/a><\/small><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kent drivers will soon see a lower speed limit along West Meeker Street between Washington Avenue South and Russell Road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":14818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-14817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14817"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14817"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=14817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}