What Street in Portsmouth has the Biggest Speeding Problem?
There are a lot of people who have trouble obeying the speed limit, but which street in Portsmouth do you think has the biggest problem with speeding?
It's been an ongoing issue in Portsmouth for several years. Drivers speed through town on many streets.
The issue has also been brought up after a fatal crash on West Main Road.
Many people have trouble obeying the speed limit, but is there one particular area of Portsmouth where people tend to speed most often?
Is there one street in Portsmouth where people often drive too fast? Tell us in the comments section below.
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BE
6:57 am on Tuesday, January 8, 2013
East Main is terrible.
Tom
7:52 am on Tuesday, January 8, 2013
We could solve the national debt by ticketing the speeders thru the Melville School zone ...
Jennifer Carver
7:57 am on Tuesday, January 8, 2013
I agree with Tom. The speeding through the Melville School zone is horrible! I see it everyday, multiple cars!!!!! It's just as bad at the Aquidneck Christian School Zone. Start handing out tickets!!!!!
Beth Gilpin
8:06 am on Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Wapping Road --- it is 25mph! I get it that it's a pretty country road, but there is a blatant disregard for the slow children/ 25mph signs. I've had someone pass me before on it! ARGH!
Former Ports resident
9:30 am on Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Bottom of the hill on Quaker Lane
Patriot
9:42 am on Tuesday, January 8, 2013
anywhere on Middle Rd.
Ed Beeslak
10:39 am on Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Union Street. People even pass on a double line when you are going too slow for their racing vehicles.
Island Porkrunner
10:48 am on Tuesday, January 8, 2013
The most amusing is the speeding UP the hill directly in front of the police station. I get my speed up to 45mph at the bottom of the hill and then let the hill decelerate me to 35 -- which is the actual speed limit! It drives people BONKERS to have to go the speed limit. The irony is this takes place directly in front of the police station every day.
They can't wait to reach the top of the hill where we then accelerate to 50 mph. No one out there understands physics. It takes much more gas to go faster up the hill than to wait and accelerate once you reach the top. A similar phenomenon occurs on the Newport bridge as well.
The Shill
12:28 pm on Tuesday, January 8, 2013
So your doing 45 in a 25 at the bottom of the hill and 50 in a 35 at the top?
Rhody
12:42 pm on Tuesday, January 8, 2013
The real irony is that you see no problem with you breaking the speed limit, but chastise others. You just admitted that you do 20 mph over before doing 10 mph over. That's irony. Those who live in glass houses....
Joan
11:52 am on Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Bristol Ferry Rd, I actually take my dog walking in Colt State Park because I am scared to death to walk in town.
factualality
12:49 pm on Tuesday, January 8, 2013
I think having 25 MPH outside a school zone is not terribly helpful. The slower the speed limit, the more unreasonable folks think it, and the more likely they will just ignore it and choose their own speed. That said - speeding is speeding - no one should be doing 50 in a 35, or 50 in a 25 for that matter - but East & West Main is jam packed with them. No small police department like Portsmouth's could possibly keep up...we better get used to it or get some cameras to do it. I don't see people slowing down in the next decade......even after horrific accidents.
Bob Parr
2:16 pm on Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Bristol Ferry Rd between Senior Center and the traffic light at Sprague St - especially if the light is green.