Kings Road Residents to Vote on Changes
A poll will soon be distributed to residents for them to vote on how to regulate traffic safety.
Officials believe motorists along Kings Road struggle to obey the posted 25-mile-per-hour speed limit. However, that won't be the case for long. Following a Traffic Safety Committee meeting on Wednesday evening, residents of Kings Road, which has come under scrutiny due to aggressive drivers recently, will soon decide how best to ensure that drivers obey the speed limit. Vince DeNave, the borough engineer, is working on the ballot and will deliver it to each house on Kings Road "as soon as he can," Mayor Nelson Vaughan said after the meeting. At the meeting, where a dozen Kings Road residents came to voice their opinion, Vaughan took a poll as to how the speed limit should be enforced. Some of the suggestions were: "The next step is that …
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A_Chatham_Citizen
8:48 am on Monday, July 18, 2011
@Jerry: Everyone who lives on Kings Road bought their homes knowing it was a through street and obviously knowing there are no sidewalks. Don't buy a house on a street with no sidewalks if you are UNHAPPY with the traffic flow and if you feel you need sidewalks in order to walk. It's really as simple as that. Don't buy a house KNOWING all those factors and then complain afterwards. more ›