Your readers may be interested to know that the actual cost to the taxpayers of the recent change of the speed limit on New Sweden Road was nearly $6,300. This cost included not just making and placing new signs, but a reported 133 hours of engineering evaluation. Since city employees are so seldom seen on the road, I can only assume the cost involved building a tower near City Hall from which they can see New Sweden

A little known result of changing local speed limits is that those ticketed for exceeding new limits are usually locals. Tourists tend to be looky-loos who aren’t speeding. Residents of Rockaway Beach found this out first hand. Of course, for Rockaway Beach, being the high-rent district, the change of their speed limits cost us much more and someone has to pay for it. All of us!!

Walter Ball

Mayor of Eagledale