The problem is also that likely no one did 60, but rather close to 70.

So for everyone thinking 30 is too low, do not fret, people will just drive 40 anyhow and that is not too slow.

Surprised as that’s even faster than most places in the car-brained US. It’s “only” 48kph (30mph) on the high side and 32kph (20mph) most other places

Japan actually does very little in the way of pedestrian or bicycle friendly road design compared to most European countries (there are a few things worth learning from IMO, just not as many as, say, the Netherlands).

It works as well as it does because of the narrow streets and how little car traffic they have (even less than the Netherlands, which does way more to try and reign in cars but has way more of them). They have so little car traffic because you have to prove you have a permanent parking space in order to buy a car, there's no on-street parking, and the public transit network is very extensive. That and the aforementioned narrow streets just make driving inconvenient compared to the other options.

I will admit that driving at 30km/h is pretty painful sometimes.

That's probably street design issue.

No more Isekai truck-kun

You know I couldn't imagine going 40 miles an hour down that road but I'm sure people do

yikes. it's 60kph now on a street like that? half that seems far more reasonable, even without giant trucks and suv on the streets.

My carbrain seeing the title: Wtf, 30 for normal residential areas is a bit TOO low, we have 50 in most of Europe and that's just fine

My carbrain after seeing the photo: Nah this would be 20 in my country and in the vicinity of pedestrians, at pedestrian speed. AKA you'd definitely see one of these signs.

It's wild they allowed 60 on streets like this in the first place. That must feel like street racing going down this narrow alley. I was sort of expecting a regular street with a sidewalk upon seeing the title and the fact that it used to be 60.

That's the USA for you, they have MPH so no way they use something as serious as km/h, gotta USify that.

You don't need speed to kill on the road.

Source: konosuba