Four roads targeted
By:John Tredrea
At the suggestion the Mayors’ Task Force on Trucks and Traffic, the full Hopewell Township Committee voted unanimously Oct. 17 to introduce an ordinance under which speed limits on two township roads would be reduced.
The proposed ordinance, scheduled for a public hearing and adoption vote Nov. 2, would reduce the speed limit on Van Dyke Road from 35 to 25 miles an hour.
"There’s a tremendous amount of cut-through traffic" on its way to and from Princeton that uses Van Dyke Road, said Jon Edwards ,deputy mayor and task force member.
Van Dyke Road runs north-south between Route 654 and Stony Brook Road in the central township.
The proposed ordinance would also post a 30 mph speed limit on Old Mill Road. Since no speed limit is posted now, the limit is 50 mph, under state law. About a mile and a half long, narrow Old Mill Road runs north-south between Federal City and Pennington-Rocky Hill roads just east of Pennington.
Postponed until the Township Committee’s Nov. 2 meeting was a public hearing and adoption vote on a similar ordinance, introduced by the committee Oct. 5.
Cause of the delay was the inadvertent omission of the date of the public hearing, which would have been held Oct. 17, from the legal notice of the ordinance, published after it was introduced. The notice will be republished, Township Attorney John Bennett said.
Under the ordinance, the speed limit on Bayberry Road would be reduced from 35 to 30 mph. The speed limit on Aunt Molly Road would be posted at 25 mph. No limit is posted on the road now, which means motorists may travel up to 50 mph and be within the law.