[Neighbors] Express your support for the Lead/Coal Smart Lights initiative!

[imides-46686 at mypacks.net]

I realize this is social media (opinions count more than facts), but advocating traffic control devices that turn red when approaching vehicles exceed the speed limit presupposes that the posted speed limit is reasonable. The limit on Lead & Coal is not based on a traffic engineering study nor on the engineering-based 85th percentile speed principle. Allowing neighborhood associations to interfere with traffic engineering best practices will predictably lead to those same speed violators becoming red light violators, thereby putting lives at risk of motorists and pedestrians who cross with the resulting green lights. Clearly a case of the cure being worse than the disease. Law suits to follow...

Mel