Speed limits

[Speedy-s3r1]

This is a joke... Right?

https://www.tapinto.net/towns/south-brunswick-cranbury/articles/cranbury-township-committee-seeks-to-codify-speed

[James Taylor]

The ordinance introduced last night incorporates the township speed limits in our code book.

While working on codifying the speed limits, we took the opportunity to assess the speeding issues the town and residents are encountering on Cranbury Neck Rd and Plainsboro Rd. as a number of pedestrians use these roads (whether children walking to school, walking to town, joggers, etc...). Despite the number of tickets we issue--for example, in April we issued 143 traffic summonses and of those summonses Plainsboro Rd. was the number one road for speeding and number two road for other traffic offenses----speeding is a continuous problem.

After much thought and analysis, we took action to address the speeding issues.

Cranbury Neck Road
From town to Wynnewood Drive will remain 25 Mph

From Wynnewood Drive to Applegate Court will be 35 mph – a transition period

From Applegate on to the township line it will be 50mph.

Plainsboro Road

From Town to #142 will remain 25 mph

From #142 to Petty Rd. it will be 40 mph

From Petty Rd. to the township line it will be 45mph consistent with Plainsboro Rd. in Plainsboro.

[anon-sp0n]

Terrible idea and unnecessary.

They should have done the opposite -- put the signs back up on Cranberry Neck so everyone knew it was 50MPH after Wynnewood since so many people seem confused about it.

[anon-s440]

The issue is people speeding in the 25 where it's already posted 25. So your idea may increase speeding.

[anon;os3-58q6]

The bottom line is--- post the 25 mph zones , then simply enforce the speed limit.The other transitions should be CLEARLY posted so there is no question as to what the speed limt is in any location. There are those folks who will readily comply if you give them proper posting. Those who choose to disregard the posting should be ticketed.

[anon-s440]

Did you see the above? It's posted and they are being heavily ticketed yet no one is complying. There is a big 25 mph sign on Cranbury neck rd and card ignore it. Same on Plainsboro. Anyone living on these roads sees speeding all the time.

The idea of posting signs as you state showing a higher limit would work only if cars were ticketed for being too slow.

[anon-sp0n]

Also, I travel these two roads every day, many times a day for one of them. What speeding problem are you talking about? On Cranberry Neck I rarely see people traveling more than 50-55MPH from Applegate to Wynnewood, which is what they should be traveling. Many times they are going slower because the lack of signs confused them. Is there a study to back up the idea that we have too many people going meaningfully about the 50MPH legal limit?

[anon-s077]

Did you see the above? It's posted and they are being heavily ticketed yet no one is complying. There is a big 25 mph sign on Cranbury neck rd and card ignore it. Same on Plainsboro. Anyone living on these roads sees speeding all the time.

The idea of posting signs as you state showing a higher limit would work only if cars were ticketed for being too slow.

[anon-sp0n]

[anon-sp0n]

Also, if they do this, will they install 50MPH signs at Westboard at Applegate instead of forcing people to guess or proactively find out when the speed changes from 35MPH, as they now have to do at the 25/50 transition at Wynnewood?

[anon-s095]

And notice the $50 fee on top of the fine you would get for the ticket as it is. Sounds like they're looking for the cash from fines as well!

[anon-02r0]

The speed limits are fine the way they are. Aside from the INSANE 35mph limit on Old Trenton. That is just DUMB. If the cops actually ran radar on the roads with the speeding problems there would not be an issue. I have never seen a cop sit on Cran Neck running radar. Very rarely on Main St and maybe once every 6 months on Maplewood.

[anon-0592]

This is insane! Neither section complies with state law for speed limits. After the ridiculous change on old Trenton road you would think tc members would have learned a lesson about making changes to please a minorty. Meanwhile looking like fools to the majority.

[Huhhhh-466r]

Just what we need is more signs around town. I never see the police run radar anywhere but in the 25 mph zones so that is easy to right speeding tickets. How many tickets are written in speed zones higher then 25 mph like on John White, Ancil Davidson,half Acre or even Plainsboro out of the 25 mph areas?

[anon-4p22]

You all do realize that these speed limit changes will have zero impact on travel time.

I can tell you that Cranbury Neck has constant speeding and I fully support the changes as do neighbors I have spoken with. I hope the TC does not listen to these threats or statements and does the right thing.

[anon-np42]