The speed limit is WAY to high on Nelson Siding rd. You cannot safely walk/jog let alone ride a horse on it.
Weekenders/ travelers use this road as a quick short cut to avoid I-90 traffic through out the summer months. And they drive like maniacs. People are constantly passing and exceedingly speeding throughout the entire 5 mile stretch.
With so many driveways, curves, farm equipment, would like to be out walkers/joggers/bikers/horse backers-
50 mph, sadly we are looking for a serious accident eventually.
Casey - 9 years ago
Are the semi-trucks using back roads to avoid the weigh station on I-90? Or do they have a legitimate reason for using the roads (ie: they make deliveries, drivers live on the road, too large to fit under overpasses, etc.). Certainly, roads are typically open to all – if the vehicle fits – but is their another motive at play here. Large vehicles also need to reduce their speed on winding country back roads... if speed is necessary, take I-90.
Brenda Sargent - 9 years ago
The speed limit is (in my opinion) dangerously high for this road. Children wait for school buses on this road, people ride bicycles without a safe shoulder, pedestrians walk without sidewalks, and animals occasionally get out of their pastures. The speed limit should never have been at 55 at all. Adding large vehicles like commercial trucks and semis that go that fast on these roads yet that cannot stop quickly, and we are asking for disaster. So if we are going to open the roads to semis and large heavy trucks, which we almost have to, we need to reduce the speed.
The speed limit is WAY to high on Nelson Siding rd. You cannot safely walk/jog let alone ride a horse on it.
Weekenders/ travelers use this road as a quick short cut to avoid I-90 traffic through out the summer months. And they drive like maniacs. People are constantly passing and exceedingly speeding throughout the entire 5 mile stretch.
With so many driveways, curves, farm equipment, would like to be out walkers/joggers/bikers/horse backers-
50 mph, sadly we are looking for a serious accident eventually.
Are the semi-trucks using back roads to avoid the weigh station on I-90? Or do they have a legitimate reason for using the roads (ie: they make deliveries, drivers live on the road, too large to fit under overpasses, etc.). Certainly, roads are typically open to all – if the vehicle fits – but is their another motive at play here. Large vehicles also need to reduce their speed on winding country back roads... if speed is necessary, take I-90.
The speed limit is (in my opinion) dangerously high for this road. Children wait for school buses on this road, people ride bicycles without a safe shoulder, pedestrians walk without sidewalks, and animals occasionally get out of their pastures. The speed limit should never have been at 55 at all. Adding large vehicles like commercial trucks and semis that go that fast on these roads yet that cannot stop quickly, and we are asking for disaster. So if we are going to open the roads to semis and large heavy trucks, which we almost have to, we need to reduce the speed.