I have seen in the last few news letters, articles concerning speeding in our neighborhood. I am usually only commuting on two streets (Strawberry Farms BLVD and Honeysuckle Blvd). I haven't not notice any real problem with people driving fast enough to classify them as ''would be NASCAR drivers itching to take the checkered flag''. In fact I rarely even notice people driving over 35 mph. I know that the speed limit is 25 mph, but unless you are setting a cruise control through the neighborhood you will not maintain exactly 25 mph and most people probably drive at speeds around 30 mph. Before you consider speed bumps you might want the opinion of more than 20 people. I'm sure that is not even 1% of the population of our neighborhood. Also consider, that right now it is next to impossible to get snowplows to come down our streets, if speed bumps are put in place, we will never have snowplows come down our streets. Snowplow operators have to lift their blades to go over speed bumps which means a street with speed bumps will slow them down. They will do streets without speedbumps first.


By Mindy Pauff

speeders??

We would love for you to attend our monthly meetings and give us your views on speed bumps...there is a major speed issue in our neighborhood that will only get worse when major construction starts right outside our neighborhood.
You are fortunate if its not happening on your street but there are plenty of peoply on Blueberry, Strawberry, Forest Edge and Magnolia that support the speed bump issue.

speeders???

Thank you ananymous for your reply to my message. As for the Speed problem on Strawberry Farms BLVD. I disagree. I would love to attend a monthly meeting, unfortunately I am a very busy person and have been unable to attend any so far. I also believe that since my views would be the minority view among the 20 people who attend these meetings it would pobably not be a welcome view.

Monthly meetings

I agree with Mindy on one of two points:

Time schedules make meeting attendance very difficult. Are there plans in the works for virtual meetings? I am not advocating eliminating the corporeal meetings as they are very necessary but rather adding a further forum.

As for the speed bumps, I am a proponent for them on Forest Edge. Perhaps the Strawberry Farms Blvd. route could do without but Forest Edge is becoming more and more of a hazard. The potholes certainly are slowing some drivers down but only to a point.

As for the argument of our roads not being plowed, we are clearly not in a priority area. As a test, what was done on Tamarack Circle with their speed bumps and snow plowing?

Finally, we must be proactive with ''traffic calming'' as the City calls it. Construction to the 161-270 Interchange will bring a lot of dust and more traffic through our neighborhood. Has anyone taken note of the increase in traffic due to the stoplight at Sunbury Road? I can imagine at least a doubling if not more of traffic load on Forest Edge in the near future.