Business and residential districts
A free practice question for the California permit test, with the answer explained.
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No sign is posted. What is the speed limit in a residential district?
The rule
Streets in business and residential districts have a 25 mph limit unless signs post a different one.
Business and residential districts have a 25 mph limit unless a sign shows something else. 25 school, homes, shops · 15 blind corner, alley, rail crossing.
From the California Driver Handbook, section 7, page 52. This question is our own wording of that rule. The handbook and the DMV have the final word.
Often mixed up with
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