After complaining about new speed limit signs over the summer, the residents of Langdon Road in Lewiston received their wish recently with a lower speed limit.
Town Supervisor Steve Broderick said Monday that the Department of Transportation notified them that the speed limit there had been reduced from 55 mph to 40 mph. It would apply to the 1.2-mile stretch between Porter Center and Dickersonville roads.
“I think we pretty much had every neighbor sign a petition to have it reduced,” Broderick said during Monday’s town board meeting. “Here is a situation where the neighbors all got together, reached out, and were successful.”
The residents’ initial complaint from July said the road used to be unmarked, but signs saying the speed limit is 55 mph were installed in May. It also said that speeding had been an issue on the road for the past 20 years, with several near misses and reports of vehicles going well above the posted speed limit.
Some neighbors had requested the speed limit to be 45 mph and others 35 mph. Of the 40 households on that road, all but one had signed a petition to change it.
The Lewiston Department of Public Works will soon install the new speed limit signs.