7/19/16
by News Department on 07/19/16Speeding concerns...
Concerned officials, in Palo Alto, are looking into a few ways to encourage drivers to slow down while driving through the borough.
According to Palo Alto Mayor John Deatrich Jr., some drivers who turn into Palo Alto to take its mile-long main street, Bacon Street, to Port Carbon, which is bordered by playgrounds, businesses and homes, fail to take note to the 30 mph signs.
Officials are hoping to find funding to put up additional speed limit signs and equipment to help their officers improve enforcement efforts.
So far, they’ve borrowed a radar speed sign from West Penn Township police to remind motorists how fast they’re going. At present, there are six 30 mph speed limit signs bordering the west-bound lane of Bacon Street and three 30 mph speed limit signs bordering the east-bound lane of Bacon Street.
Deatrich said he’d like to see a new type of sign put up for east-bound traffic coming off Route 61 and would also like to find funding to improve the speed limit signs along Bacon Street.
