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Residents urge Norristown council to act on neighborhood speeding, seek speed bumps and patrols
Summary
Residents from West James Street and other neighborhoods told council they are experiencing frequent, dangerous speeding and asked for traffic calming and increased police patrols; council heard multiple public comments and acknowledged jurisdiction and enforcement questions.
Residents pressed Norristown Municipal Council during public comment on April 21 to address what they described as persistent and dangerous speeding in residential neighborhoods.
Patty Griffin, who said she lives on the 1300 block of West James Street, told council she “has personally witnessed people going as fast as 60 ... on a 25 mph residential street” and described regular near-misses, a recent fatal strike of a pet and limited police patrols. She asked the municipality to make more traffic enforcement available and to install speed…
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