Wednesday, May 02, 2007

In the article I read yesterday again talks about speeding. There are more people killed in traffic accidents than murdered in the USA. So it's getting very serious, and police is trying to resolve this situation.
Des Moines police (Iowa State) said that one of their top complaints is about speeding drivers in a neighborhood's 25 mph speed limit. They get more than 300 complaints about traffic problems every year and a majority of them are about speeding.

A neighborhood near 12th Street and Shawnee Avenue in Des Moines is a very bad one when it comes to speeders. Speed limit in residential areas is 25 mph, but nothing, including putting up additional 25 mph speed limit signs, or discussing this issue in local newspapers, helps. Drivers simply ignore them, that goes on until they see a police officer with a hand-held radar gun, or red lights and siren go on.
Too many people from Ankeny going to work cut through residential areas, but they do it with no regard for those who live on these streets.