A stretch of Lee Boulevard between 81st Street and 103rd Street now has a lower speed limit in the latest effort by Leawood officials to address parents’ demands for pedestrian safety. The council unanimously voted last week to lower the speed limit from 35 to 30 miles an hour, beginning Friday, Feb. 20, with the intent to review the effects in six months to decide if the limit needs to be lowered even further. Speed limits, crosswalks, helmets and signals have been at the top of the council’s to-do list for the past few months, since the death of 10-year-old Duke Ommert in October. Duke was hit by a car while riding an electric scooter on Lee Boulevard. Since then, parents have regularly brought their suggestions on safer streets to council meetings, and the council has begun to take action, recently requiring helmets for youths operating electric scooters and bikes.
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