Locals foot the bill for new speed-limit signs | Letters, Jan. 9

Published 10:56 am Monday, January 12, 2009

Your readers may be interested to know that the actual cost to the taxpayers of the recent change of the speed limit on New Sweden Road was nearly $6,300. This cost included not just making and placing new signs, but a reported 133 hours of engineering evaluation. Since city employees are so seldom seen on the road, I can only assume the cost involved building a tower near City Hall from which they can see New Sweden

A little known result of changing local speed limits is that those ticketed for exceeding new limits are usually locals. Tourists tend to be looky-loos who aren’t speeding. Residents of Rockaway Beach found this out first hand. Of course, for Rockaway Beach, being the high-rent district, the change of their speed limits cost us much more and someone has to pay for it. All of us!!

Walter Ball

Mayor of Eagledale