By Amy Batista, Special Writer
HIGHTSTOWN — The Borough Council unanimously introduced an ordinance on June 1 that would set the speed limit on a portion of Wyckoff Mills Road to what’s already posted there.
Councilman Seth Kurs said a 25 mph sign posted on the curve by the Enchantment residential development prompted the speed limit discussion.
“The signs are wrong,” he said. “The ordinance and the state law say 35 mph and the signs were put up by we believe, Lt. Gendron believes, by the developer.”
He said the police can’t enforce the 25 mph because the ordinance says 35 mph.
Mayor Larry Quattrone said, “So the question was do we want to amend the ordinance to reduce it to 25 mph or keep the section at 35 mph and we kind of did a hybrid. We addressed the part where the houses from North Main Street to Cranbury Station Road that actually face the roadway that have direct access onto Wyckoff Mills Road and we dropped it to 25 mph. The section where the houses don’t face the roadway and don’t have direct access will be 35 mph and the border into East Windsor turns to 40 mph.”
The Hightstown Borough Police Department has recommended and the council finds that it is in the public interest to establish a 25 mph speed limit for that portion of Wyckoff Mills Road, according to the ordinance.
The public hearing on the ordinance is scheduled for June 15 at 7 p.m. at the Hightstown First Aid Building.
