Speed limit puzzles Old Bridge residents

A couple of residents called Magistrate Jim Ryan and told him they wanted Old Bridge Road to have a speed limit. Ryan said he believed they wanted the speed limit to be 35 mph.

Just before magistrates voted on the ordinance Tuesday, Ryan convinced the Fiscal Court to change the speed limit on Old Bridge Road from 25 to 35. The other streets in the subdivision were set at 25.

Mallory said, given the choice, residents would want the speed limit to be 25 mph for the entire length of the road.

One resident posted his own speed limit sign

Mike Cushing lives on the road. The speeding in front of his house scared him so much he posted his own speed limit sign on the mailbox.

"It scares me that I can't allow my kids to get close to the road," he said. "Some people do 50 or 60 mph when they come over the hill."

Cushing wants the county to install a speed bump to help slow drivers down. He said 35 mph does not give a driver enough reaction time if a child runs out into the street.

"It will take a child getting killed on that road to make any changes," he said.

Speeding drivers scare Bob Brown, too. He and his wife, like many of the neighborhood residents, like to walk in the neighborhood. They walk side-by-side, but when they hear a car, they form a single-file line.

The magistrates' decision "puzzled" Mallory because they set the speed limits on the other streets in the neighborhood, that mirror Old Bridge Road in number of houses and proximity to the road, but changed the speed limit on Old Bridge Road.

A copy of the speed limits set on all county roads is available in the judge-executive's office at the courthouse.

So you know:

Boyle County Fiscal Court set speed limits on county roads, and fines for speeders.

The fine will be $2 for each mile per hour over the posted speed limit, up to 25 mph. Drivers going faster than 25 mph over the speed limit will be fined no less than $60 and no more than $100.

Drivers also will have to pay $138 in court costs.