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Resident urges lower speed limit on Fancher Road, cites heavy truck traffic and safety concerns
Summary
A Mount Pleasant resident told the Board of Trustees that Fancher Road carries heavy traffic including 18-wheelers and dump trucks and asked the village to study lowering the speed limit from 45 mph to 35 mph; staff offered to discuss the issue with him but no formal action was taken.
Steve Johnson, a Mount Pleasant resident, urged the Village of Mount Pleasant Board of Trustees on May 12 to consider reducing the speed limit on Fancher Road from 45 mph to 35 mph because of what he described as a rise in large-truck traffic and safety concerns for pedestrians and nearby daycare and church users.
Johnson said he conducted an informal, one-hour traffic count and recorded “over 700 vehicles” passing both directions between about 6:30 and 7:30 a.m. on a recent morning, and that the next-day total was “within 20.” He also…
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