To: Chris Viebrock, P.E., Deputy Commissioner of Public Works, Mayor James C. Purcell, Mayor, and Steven M. Neuhaus, County Executive
20 mph speed limit for streets surrounding North Main Street School
The petitioner asks Village of Monroe and the Orange County legislator to adopt 20 mph as the speed limit for residential areas and school zones. Specifically the streets surrounding North Main Street School in the Village of Monroe.
Why is this important?
I would like to propose a reduction of the speed limit on the streets surrounding North Main Street in the Village of Monroe. This is a residential area and should not be grim thoroughfare for fast-moving cars and large industrial vehicles.
Last year on Halloween a child was hit by a car right near North Main Elementary school. Most of the residents of the area surrounding the school would like to live on a quiet safe street where children can play outside and walk to school safely. The area has significant pedestrian traffic and a large number of students who walk to school. For many of our neighbors walking is the primary mode of transportation.
At 20 mph, drivers make eye contact with the people in the street they are passing through. At speeds over 30 mph, drivers disassociate from the area they are passing through – treating it principally as a traffic thoroughfare for getting quickly from A to B, rather than a neighborhood where children are playing.
A reduction of the speed limit may result in a decrease of the inappropriate road use. We have large numbers of trucks using our street as a thoroughfare. I have counted up to 25 in an hour. This is hard on our roads and effects the tenor of the community. The North Main is a residential area not an industrial zone.
Last year on Halloween a child was hit by a car right near North Main Elementary school. Most of the residents of the area surrounding the school would like to live on a quiet safe street where children can play outside and walk to school safely. The area has significant pedestrian traffic and a large number of students who walk to school. For many of our neighbors walking is the primary mode of transportation.
At 20 mph, drivers make eye contact with the people in the street they are passing through. At speeds over 30 mph, drivers disassociate from the area they are passing through – treating it principally as a traffic thoroughfare for getting quickly from A to B, rather than a neighborhood where children are playing.
A reduction of the speed limit may result in a decrease of the inappropriate road use. We have large numbers of trucks using our street as a thoroughfare. I have counted up to 25 in an hour. This is hard on our roads and effects the tenor of the community. The North Main is a residential area not an industrial zone.