QUESTION OF THE WEEK-Where Do Drivers Speed Most in Sharon?
Let's see if there's a consensus.
We all know there are spots where people tend to speed in Sharon?
Tell us in the comments section which are the most dangerous and might need a raised section, another stop sign, more crosswalks or another measure to slow down traffic. Then next Wednesday, we'll run a poll based on the top five answers we received in the callout.
Shlomie Heller
8:18 am on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Bay rd from plain st intersection to castle drive just lower speed limit to 25 from 35
Kurt Buermann
8:27 am on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Lakeview St from Massapoag Ave to Est Foxborough St. This is especially dangerous on account to the day/summer camps on the road as well as the blind curve where Morse St intersects Lakeview.
Kurt Buermann
8:36 am on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Furnace St. A narrow,curving street. Since it is a scenic road it can't be widened. Nothing over 25 MPH is safe. Many walkers & joggers. This has been a cut-through for the folks from Sharon Woods and Cannonball lForge. The street was originally supposed to dead end at Gavin's Pond as per agreement with Sharon Woods developers. As with most town-developer agreements, this one never materialized.
Speed bumps would be good. Better: speed "humps.". These are stretched-out speed bumps 6 or so feet long. They don't produce the sharp jolt of a speed bump, and are comfortable at the proper speed. Go too fast and you're in for a wild ride!
Speed humps also are immune from snow ploughs which ride over them rather than scrape them off the road as is true with speed bumps.
Sharon Resident
10:16 am on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Lyndon Road (as they come off of Hampton Road)
Pat Daner
10:46 am on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Mountain Street turning right onto East and accelerating down East towards Bay.
BGutman
1:56 pm on Thursday, August 2, 2012
Lakeview near E. Foxboro, especially in the early evening
Missy Elliot
12:42 am on Saturday, August 4, 2012
On Wilshire Drive, from Lyndon Road to East Elementary - worse when parents are rushing to school.
Suzanne
11:40 pm on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
cutting from Lyndon to Carbrey to Gannett.......lots of moms and teens speeding by