Hunter Village Drive near Old Keene Mill Road

Springfield, Virginia•Feb 26, 2008•2 Comments

The northern part of Hunter Village is a ~ 0.4 miles long
road going through a park-like setting. Sometimes, and in
particular during morning and evening rush hour, people enter their cars parked at the (posted) pickup place, or walk home along Hunter Village. The road serves the
Daventry community, and also connects two County feeder
roads. The posted speed limit is 25 mph: at this time there
is only one sign at the far northern entrance (off Old Keene
Mill) and one sign about 0.4 miles south, at the other entrance (where many side streets enter Hunter Village).
(More signs are planned, but not yet installed).
Without pedestrians, a safe speed is 40 mph, and in my observation this comes close to the 85 % percentile
you mention. When pedestrians
are present I see many people slow down and cross the
double yellow lines, for safety.

Most enforcement of the speed limit takes place at quiet
times, say late morning or evening, or early afternoon,
and also the weekend.

Vote for this Speedtrap below:
Yes! This is a speed trap. (10 votes)
No, this is definitely NOT a speed trap. (6 votes)
Comments:
This is a residential area with lots of young kids. It is NOT safe to go 40 mph here. We who live in the neighborhood cheer the police when we see them ticketing the folks who zoom through, using this street as a short cut.
#1•Mar 24, 2013•Report Abuse
The previous comment is one side of a scala of opinions in the community about Hunter Village. Indeed, if the police were to ticket only "folks who zoom through, using this street as a short cut", when there are lots of young kids about I'd cheer too. But, the problem is: they never do that. They tend to ticket people when they know it's good fishing, when they know that there is no physical reason to adhere to the posted (25 mph) speed: the road is built so that a good speed limit is 35 mph, This was, indeed, the speed limit that used to be posted, when Daventry was just built; back then, and still now, this road is a 'rural access road', and not actually residential because no houses front on the street. People tend to slow down when children are about. Let the police ticket speeders only when this is so, not when no one is around and it's perfectly safe to drive 35 mph or 40 mph. If the police were to use its discretion to do it this way, rather than the opposite, Hunter Village would no longer count as a speed trap.
#2•Feb 23, 2014•Report Abuse

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