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Lake Forest Might Get Speed Tables

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LAURA KINSLER

The Tampa Tribune

Published: June 9, 2008

LAKE FOREST - Hillsborough County's traffic division and Lake Forest residents are working together to reduce speeding in the neighborhood.

County staffers met last week with neighborhood residents to discuss solutions to the speeding problem on Lake Forest Drive. Traffic division director Mike McCarthy said people at the meeting voted to install a series of speed tables on Lake Forest Drive just north of Tall Tree Drive.

"The northbound traffic was going an average of 37 mph," McCarthy said. "The posted speed limit is 25 mph."

Residents also asked the county to install a set of electronic feedback signs, which include radar detectors, to show drivers how fast they are going. The signs, which cost $3,000 per set, would be erected on Morning Drive. The speed tables' cost would total about $1,100.

Sixty percent of the homeowners on those streets must sign a petition before the county will do the work.

"They need to get the petitions in because we have money in this year's budget to do it," McCarthy said. "The money will be reduced in next year's budget because of the tax cuts."

Reporter Laura Kinsler can be reached at (813) 865-4844 or lkinsler@tampatrib.com.

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