rT'OW\ of farmville police will install in * the near future electric timing devices to indicate driving speeds within the '1 own. Used with discretion the device may have some good effect upon the drivers of cars on the town’s streets!. Speed limits are violated on certain [streets more than others. First and Second avenues, High street. Second street are a few of the streets where we have observed excessive speeds, no doubt there are others. Before the timing device is installed, we .suggest that speed limits be well posted showing the legal speeds on the various streets. Where lower limits are advisable, plain, well defined signs should be posted. Another suggestion. A study should be made on the approaching roads and high ways to be certain that the speed limits now posted are reasonable and practical. We make these suggestions because we were hauled into police court in Petersburg several years ago, and fined for exceeding the speed limit in a 25 mile zone. This zone was in a sparsely settled area, on Route 460, (a four lane roadway), approaching the city’s corporate limits, beside Bland ford cemetery. The speed limit was not
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