FILER, Idaho (KMVT/KSVT) —If you’re driving through Filer, you’ll want to pay attention to the new speed limit signs that have been put up.

Prior to this when you’d enter town, the speed would drop to 35 miles per hour then to 25 when school was in session.

Now it’s permanently 25 miles per hour all the way through.

Filer Mayor Bob Templeman said the decision to change the speed limit comes from the numerous complaints about road safety regarding Highway 30l, but there are other benefits.

“Plus the population growth within the vicinity of Filer and Buhl, we are all growing and the traffic has been probably doubled in the few years and it’s a safety factor for everybody and so as you drive through each one of these small towns on Highway 30, most of them are at 25 miles per hour and thi

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