The Citizens on Patrol Program has been monitoring speeds around the community with MPI’s SpeedCheck sign for just over a week.  Their Chairperson Sinclair James reports they have monitored traffic on four occasions checking 490 vehicles with 100 exceeding the speed limit.  He says they were at the north end of Green Street where the most concern was and the average over the two days at that location was 26 to 27 percent of the drivers being over the posted speed limit.  He says two other locations were monitored on Green Street at Willis Avenue and on Highway 10A across from Twin Motors and both of those locations revealed an average of 16 to 17 percent of the drivers exceeding the speed limit.

  James adds some people speed up when they see the sign with the fastest 83 kilometers per hour and their vehicle information was passed on to the RCMP.  The SpeedWatch program will continue at a variety of locations around the community until October.