“There was a car on our street 95 miles an hour.”
Elmwood Drive resident Robyn Peot says she’s been trying for years to get speed bumps or speed cushions on her block.
“I’ve been in it for three years and we still have nothing.”
To speed up the process, assistant city manager Doug LaFave says a new policy approved by the city commission will make it easier and faster for residents to get speed calming devices on their streets.
“Allow for more deployment.”
Until now a series of traffic studies conducted over years had to show 85 percent of vehicles are traveling 5 miles or more above the limit before a street is eligible for speed-calming devices. Under the new policy, it’s added to the list if most property owners sign a petition.
“The current policy takes a long time to get through all those different studies. If 80 percent of residents on a block or set of blocks are requesting it they don’t have to meet the criteria of five mile an hour over the posted speed limit.”
Lauren Bemben wonders if more speeding tickets would also work.
“Increased enforcement by police? If somebody is sitting there and is handing out say a high school student a ticket in the morning, I bet they don’t do it again.”
“Police officers can’t be everywhere all the time, that’s why these types of interventions are effective.”
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