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35mph-no_120Lansing lost its bid to lower the speed limit along Auburn and Ridge Roads (NY Route 34B) from Triphammer Road to the Lansing Schools.  The Town Board voted in December to submit a request to the New York State DOT (Department of Transportation) to lower the speed limit from 45 miles per hour to 35mph.

"We petitioned the state to look at the speed limit," says Lansing Supervisor Kathy Miller.  "We got turned down.  They felt that because it slows down to 35 near the school that was enough."

Miller noted in December that other towns' central areas have 35 mile per hour speed limits.  The reduced speed limit would have affected what there is of a town center now, as well as the main road leading to the proposed new town center.

"It gets me because it's 45 miles per hour and everybody goes 55 or 60," Miller says.  "It really gets to me when we have the ballfields full of kids.  The little brothers and sisters are playing and the ball rolls into the ditch.  It's really dangerous."

Councilwoman Katrina Binkewicz says she takes objection to the DOT's justification for keeping the current speed limit on the grounds that a lower limit would not be enforced.  She says the DOT can't 'look in a crystal ball' to predict how the speed limit will be handled locally.  Miller says that if the limit were lower people would still speed, but they would go slower than they currently do.

The current limit is 45 miles per hour from just north of Triphammer Road to the western side of Salmon Creek.  The limit is reduced in front of the school campus during school days until 6pm.  Routes 34 and 34B are state roads.

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