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Rutland Town agrees to work with Mendon on lowering Route 4 speed limit to 40 mph
Summary
Rutland Town Selectboard voted to send a representative to join Mendon in an application to VTrans seeking to lower the posted speed limit on a shared stretch of U.S. Route 4 from 45 to 40 mph to improve safety for pedestrians and businesses.
The Rutland Town Selectboard voted to send a representative to work with the Town of Mendon on a joint application to the Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans) asking that the posted speed limit on a roughly 1.25‑mile stretch of U.S. Route 4 be lowered from 45 to 40 miles per hour.
Mendon officials presented results of a scoping study and crash mapping showing a concentration of crashes in a short commercial stretch of Route 4; Mendon representatives said a lower speed limit, combined with traffic‑calming engineering, would improve pedestrian safety and business access. “We just we think that taking an extra 24 seconds to drive through our part of Route 4 is worth it if we can get down to 40 miles an hour,” Megan Smith, chair of the Mendon Selectboard,…
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