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Residents urge Margate to tackle worsening road safety; debate continues over school‑zone speed cameras
Summary
Multiple residents told the Margate commission on May 7 that recent collisions at Royal Palm and Rock Island require immediate action; speakers opposed automated school‑zone speed cameras and urged more enforcement and county-level safety planning.
Residents told the Margate City Commission on May 7 they are alarmed by repeated collisions and fatalities at the Royal Palm Road and Rock Island Road corridor and other arterial streets and urged stronger action on traffic safety.
Tracy Van Winkle, a Margate resident, said the commission's earlier vote to enable school‑zone speed cameras worries neighbors and does not address higher‑speed crashes elsewhere: "The school zones are not where it's at, guys. Let's don't do these speeding cameras. We just need to have people slow down." Several other…
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