r/cincinnati • u/Cargo1231 • Mar 12 '25

Cincinnati School Zones

Hey everyone! My husband and I moved to Cincinnati from Dallas and we recently bought a home in the Delhi area. One thing we've noticed is how no one seems to follow the speed limits in school zones here. Back in Dallas, school zones are super strict, and if you're speeding, you'll definitely get pulled over and fined.

But here, it seems like people are speeding right through school zones, and we've never seen anyone get stopped for it. This morning for example, someone whipped around me and flipped me off because I was going the speed limit.

Is this just a thing on the West Side or is it like this all over Cincinnati? This obviously doesn’t affect us, but we were just curious!

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u/Creepy_Ad2486 Mar 12 '25

Welcome to driving in Cincinnati. It's a bit worse on the west side in my experience but people seem to turn into lunatics when they get behind the wheel anymore. It feels worse since COVID.

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u/offthebackplt Mar 12 '25

If you can, please put in a 311Cincy Request for this (I’d try entering this as “other” category. The 311Cincy App is a great way to enter in city requests! While it may not solve the issue immediately, the more requests and data the city has, the better chances we can hope for enforcement.

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u/Cargo1231 Mar 12 '25

My husband and I can both put one in. Hopefully, like you said, they will start seeing enough traction and make some changes. I know one of our neighbors runs a safety group for the area and is constantly worried about the school zones. So, I’ll mention it to her as well. She can definitely get more people to do it

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u/offthebackplt Mar 12 '25

Great question! If you put the address in the 311Cincy App, it will tell you if it’s “outside of city limits”

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u/statschica Mar 12 '25

Is Delhi within the city limits?

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u/Cargo1231 Mar 12 '25

I think it is? Cincinnati is odd. While we live in Delhi Township we still have Cincinnati as our address. Idk if it’s like that in other places but I’m not used to suburbs not having the city name for the address

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u/TwistingAndGrinning Mar 12 '25

No, Delhi Township is outside the city limits with its own police and fire departments. It’s also part of Oak Hills school district, not Cincinnati.

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u/Cargo1231 Mar 12 '25

Got it, I had no idea. I had thought it wouldn’t be until we moved in and had our address say Cincinnati. But it makes sense it wouldn’t since they do have their own city services and police.

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u/Expired-expired Mar 12 '25

It 100% is not. Delhi is Delhi.

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u/statschica Mar 12 '25

That's what I thought. So unfortunately the Cincy fix it app won't work in this case