Every person operating a vehicle on any street of the city shall operate the same in a careful and prudent manner and at a rate of speed not greater than is reasonable and proper, having regard to the traffic and use of the street, and no person shall operate a vehicle on any street at a rate of speed so as to endanger the life or limb of any person or the safety of any property. Speed restrictions shall be as follows: (Ord. 586, 6-21-1920)
No person shall drive a vehicle at a rate of speed in excess of twenty five (25) miles per hour, provided that in the event the territory contiguous to the street being traveled is closely built up, the speed shall not exceed twenty five (25) miles per hour. (Ord. 586, 6-21-1920; amd. 1962 Code)
In the business district the speed limit shall be fifteen (15) miles per hour. (Ord. 907, 5-28-1964)
Upon approaching a railway crossing, or approaching or traversing a street intersection, the speed limit shall be fifteen (15) miles per hour. (Ord. 586, 6-21-1920)
The following speed limits shall be established on the following streets in the city:
Street | From/To | Speed Limit (mph)
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Street | From/To | Speed Limit (mph)
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Bee Street | Coloma Street to Canal Street | 30 | |
Benham Street | Pacific Street to Big Cut Road | 25 | |
Broadway | Mosquito Road to a point 800 feet west of Smith Flat Road | 25 | |
800 feet west of Smith Flat Road to a point 800 feet east of Smith Flat Road | 35 | ||
Point View Drive to the easterly city limits | 40 | ||
800 feet east of Smith Flat Road to the easterly city limits | 40 | ||
Canal Street | Westerly city limits to Highway 50 | 30 | |
Carson Road | Broadway to Schnell School Road | 30 | |
Cedar Ravine Street | Main Street to southerly city limits | 30 | |
Chapel Street | Pacific Street to Chamberlain Street | 15 | |
Cold Springs Road | Placerville Drive to westerly city limits | 35 | |
Combellack Road | Coloma Street to Middletown Road | 30 | |
Fair Lane | Placerville Drive to Ray Lawyer Drive | 35 | |
Forni Road | Lo Hi Way easterly to city limits | 35 | |
Grandview Street | Clay Street to Simon Drive | 35 | |
Green Valley Road | Placerville Drive to westerly city limits | 30 | |
Main Street | Forni Road to Broadway | 25 | |
Mallard Lane | Green Valley Road to city limits | 30 | |
Morrene Drive | Hocking Street to Kenneth Court | 25 | |
Mosquito Road | Broadway to Dimity Lane | 30 | |
Dimity Lane to northerly city limits | 35 | ||
Oak Terrace | Northridge Drive to a point 450 feet east of Edgewood Drive | 25 | |
Coloma Street to a point 450 feet east of Edgewood Drive | 15 | ||
Pacific Street | Sacramento Street to Cedar Ravine Street | 30 | |
Placerville Drive | West connection with Highway 50 to east connection with Highway 50 | 35 | |
Ray Lawyer Drive | Placerville Drive to Fair Lane | 35 | |
Schnell School Road | Broadway to Carson Road | 30 | |
Smith Flat Road | Broadway to city limits | 25 | |
Spring Street | Coloma Street to Bedford Avenue | 30 | |
Tunnel Street | Spring Street to its northerly terminus | 30 | |
Turner Street | Main Street to Corker Street | 30 | |
Washington Street | Spanish Ravine to Corker Street | 25 | |
Corker Street to Cedar Ravine Street | 30 | ||
Wiltse Road | Broadway to Lumsden Park entrance | 25 | |
(Ord. 1475, 2-26-1991; amd. Ord. 1482, 8-27-1991; Ord. 1489, 3-10-1992; Ord. 1493, 7-14-1992; Ord. 1548, 5-12-1998; Ord. 1550, 10-13-1998; Ord. 1563, 1-11-2000; Ord. 1588, 10-8-2002; Ord. 1705, 5-11-2021)
The speed limits herein set forth shall be effective when appropriate signs giving notice thereof are erected upon the streets and shall not thereafter be revised except upon the basis of an engineering and traffic survey. (Ord. 1116, 4-26-1977)