Gulfport City Council
Is Speeding a Problem in Gulfport?
Does Gulfport need to address speeding in residential neighborhoods? Tell city leaders what you think at the Council Workshop on Thursday.
Neighbors on 7th Ave S. have spent years telling city leaders about excessive speeding on their block. Carolyn Huffer says she routinely sees drivers accelerate up to 40 and 50 mph between 58th St. S. and 64th St. S. "65 to 75 percent of the cars are through traffic," Huffer told Patch in a previous story. Huffer, joined with four neighbors from 7th Ave S. pleaded for help during the Oct. 16 Tuesday night City Council Meeting. It wasn't the first time Huffer asked for action. Although she lives on the St. Pete side of the street, she's been fighting for a solution for the past five years, even addressing previous Gulfport councilors. Since then, she says the city has decreased the speed limit from 30 to 25 mph and added small reflectors on…
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CJ
2:58 pm on Thursday, December 13, 2012
Hard to believe you disagree there's no drug houses in the area. I was being candid, but frankly that's naive. They may not be the cause of the speeding problems this article was mainly referring to...but then again, they certainly are a source of plenty of dangerous traffic issues that include and go beyond speeding. You are right, though, about those locations you mentioned. When I first moved … more ›