PIERRE — Hughes County Commissioners are continuing to discuss what the appropriate speed limit on Spring Creek Road should be. Some residents have complained about people driving well over the speed limit on the road. County Manager Kevin Hipple presented a draft ordinance to Commissioners Monday night…
L-TAP is the Local Transportation Assistance Program at South Dakota State University, who did traffic speed surveys on Spring Creek Road. Hipple says L-TAP’s 85th-percentile never got below 40 miles per hour. Hipple says it’s going to be difficult gaining compliance at any speed…
Commission Chairman Randy Vance thinks more speeding tickets issued on the road may solve the issue. Sheriff Patrick Callahan says violators are well over the current limits…
Callahan says most of the concern is over safety…
The Commission amended the proposed ordinance to 45 miles an hour and will hold a public hearing on the proposed change at the Commission’s next meeting on August 16th.
