Millbrook lowers speed limit to 25 mph on village streets

Alden Place has a speed 25 mph limit. The speed limit on all Village center streets will be lowered to 25 mph.

Photo by Nathan Miller

Millbrook lowers speed limit to 25 mph on village streets

MILLBROOK — Although the speed limit along Franklin Avenue will remain at 30 mph, the Board of Trustees voted unanimously at their meeting on Wednesday, Aug. 28, to lower the speed limit on all other village center streets to 25 mph.

Having received a decision from the state Department of Transportation (DOT), denying the village’s request to reduce the Franklin Avenue speed limit from 30 to 25 mph, Mayor Tom Collopy reported that 23 rectangular speed limit signs will be ordered that when delivered and posted will lower the speed limit on the village side roads. Appended to each new sign will be a small bright yellow sign reading, “New,” to draw attention to the change.

Franklin Avenue is a state road and therefore it remains under the jurisdiction of the state DOT.

The cost of the new signage will total $3,000, considered a non-budget expense, Collopy noted. The new signs will enable greater enforcement of speeding, an issue of concern to residents.

While the vote to order the signs was unanimous, during discussion Trustee Peter Doro raised the question of an overload of signage along the village streets.

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