Avery JohnsonCLEVELAND, Tenn. – Two busy Bradley County roads are the focus of residents’ concerns about the dangers of speeding.
The Bradley County Road Committee will meet Thursday at 9 a.m. to consider changes in the speed limit for Urbane Road. Meanwhile, city law enforcers are looking to crack down on speeders on Rolling Hills Drive.
Bradley County commissioners recently proposed solutions after complaints of commercial trucks speeding to and from Tri-State Warehouses at one end of Urbane Road.
The Bradley County Sheriff’s Office has monitored the problem and recommended lowering the road’s speed limit, which now is 45 mph except near the turnoff into Tri Circle and the Whisperwood subdivision, where the speed limit is 35 mph.
“Sheriff [Jim] Ruth believes this is not so much a speeding problem as it is an issue of speed itself,” said Louie Alford, chairman of the County Commission.