The Town’s speed sign located at the south entrance of town records both the vehicle count and speed information of vehicles coming into town from the South on the #37 highway. The information provided was collected between October 10th and November 4th of 2014. Below is some of the information that was extracted from the download:
Traffic Count Information:
Total number of vehicles for the period was 17,762 vehicles.
Average number of vehicles per day 710
87% of the vehicles enter the town between 7AM and 7PM
Between the hours of 7AM & 7PM there is approximately 50 vehicles per hour entering the town from the south.
Traffic Peaks at around 3PM.
Traffic Speed Information:
The posted speed limit at the Town Entrance is 40 km/h per hour.
The Average Speed of vehicles in the zone is 51 Km/h
The Highest Speed recorded for the period was 70 Km/h
To bad we couldn’t have photo radar located in the vicinity. this would more than likely lower the percentage of speeders coming into town.