You're about to hear a lot of groans, moans, and bellyaching from New Yorkers... the mayor just decided that 24/7, 365, the speed limit in New York school zones - is 15 MPH.

The speed limit will be lowered to 15 mph around all the city’s thousands of schools by 2029, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Monday – as insiders quietly revealed the slow-as-dirt zones will be enforced 24/7.

“If this were really about protecting the children, why would it be 24 hours a day?”

His new push will lower 20 mph speed limits in roughly 700 school zones, and establish 100 new 15-mph zones by the end of this year.

Altogether, 15 mph speed limits will come to 800 more school zones – or 1,300 citywide – by the end of 2026, officials said.

The new limits will become official after a 60-day public comment period, officials said.

City Department of Transportation officials will eventually expand the lower speed limits to all 2,300 public and private school locations across the city when Mamdani’s first term ends, the mayor said.

city officials going back decades have supported lowering speed limits to 15 mph, including former Mayor Rudy Giuliani in 1999.

https://nypost.com/2026/03/16/us-news/mayor-zohran-mamdani-will-lower-speed-limits-to-15-mph-in-school-zones-sources/