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Speed limit reduced on Quintana roads
Published October 22, 2009
QUINTANA — Drivers soon will have to ease off the accelerator on the island.
Town Council approved a measure Monday to lower speed limits on all but one street to 20 mph in a move to protect pedestrians. Currently, speed limits throughout Quintana are 30 mph.
Lamar Street, the beachfront community’s main drag, stays at 35 mph. The road’s speed limit outside the town’s borders, known as CR 723, does not change, either. Its speed limit is 45 mph.
“We don’t have any sidewalks, so when people are walking — we have people visiting who are renting houses — to the beach, they have to walk in the streets,” Mayor Wallace Neeley said. “It’s for safety reasons.”
The change was a precautionary measure, officials said. There has not been a reported pedestrian-automobile accident on the island.
While the speed limit change goes into effect immediately, law enforcement will not ticket until new signs are in place, Neeley said. That should be at least a couple weeks, after the city orders them.
The change should not be expensive, Neeley said. The town has less than a dozen streets.
“We don’t have that many streets, really,” he said.
Nathaniel Lukefahr covers Quintana for The Facts. Contact him at 979-237-0151.
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