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I am not going to disagree that some of Warwick's roads are rough, but I am going to disagree that I have some sort of obligation to drive the speed LIMIT. If I feel safe driving 30 in a 35 mph zone, I think that is just fine. And I think it's far better than the people who drive 35 mph through Conimicut Village and other places where there are 25 mph zones on major roads. On Church Avenue there have been multiple deaths from people driving too fast, but I don't think anyone has died from someone driving 25 mph on its 30 mph speed limit curves. Indeed, there is a huge increase in risk to pedestrians and bicyclists when a car's speed increases from 30 mph to 40mph. I think the best thing about Warwick's bad roads is that they keep speeds down. Notably, my experience on the new Main Avenue stretch is that the curves have appropriately decreased speeds, which were too high on the prior straight stretch, especially where the road is so narrow (and where others have lost their lives in head-on collisions over the years). Remember, as far as accidental deaths go, the big risks in the US today are guns and cars, and those are about equal to one another.