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Residents present petition on McKinney Creek Road speeding; commissioners refer petition to engineer, sheriff and state patrol
Summary
A Lawrence County resident presented a 43‑signature petition seeking enforcement and traffic measures for McKinney Creek Road. The Board of Commissioners voted unanimously to forward the petition to the county engineer, the sheriff and the state highway patrol for follow-up.
Lawrence Sullivan, a resident of McKinney Creek Road, told the Lawrence County Board of Commissioners on Oct. 21 that neighbors had compiled a 43‑signature petition asking for enforcement and traffic studies after repeated speeding and property damage on the road. “We’ve had several serious accidents,” Sullivan said during public comment, and he described motorists regularly exceeding the 35 mph speed limit.
Sullivan asked the commissioners to request short‑term enforcement and longer‑term countermeasures such as temporary speed strips and radar speed display signs. He said the state highway patrol had begun a brief enforcement period after he delivered the petition to them but that residents wanted a more sustained response. Sullivan also told the board that “there’s actually a sheriff that lives on this road,” and expressed concern that local enforcement alone would not be sufficient.
Commissioner Copley moved to accept the petition and forward it to the county engineer, the Lawrence County sheriff and the state highway patrol; Commissioner Holiday seconded. Commissioners Finley, Holiday and Copley each voted “yes,” and the motion carried.
The board directed staff to forward the printed petition and a digital copy to the relevant agencies and asked county law enforcement and the engineer’s office to follow up on possible short‑term enforcement, traffic counts and options for signage or radar speed displays. The petition, Sullivan said, covered roughly the first mile of McKinney Creek Road and included signatures from about 43 of the approximately 45 households in that segment.
The referral is procedural: it asks agencies with enforcement and traffic‑engineering authority to respond and does not commit the county commissioners to fund specific traffic devices. Commissioners said they would relay the petition to the sheriff and engineer and request a response to the resident group.
