COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – The Coldwater City Council has discovered that the Michigan Department of Transportation seems to have a strange way of making changes to speed limits on highways like U.S. 12. At the end of last week, MDOT put the changes into effect on the east and west sides of town with speeds in the center of Coldwater on U.S. 12 remaining the same following a traffic study done by the state.
City Manager Jeff Budd told the Council on Monday night that he appealed to the state some of the changes where speeds were increased or were left the same at locations that they wanted them to be lowered like on the east side in from of Walmart and Home Depot. According to Budd, the study includes a Michigan State Police trooper who monitors how fast people are going and even though a lot of people might be going over the speed limit, they don’t get tickets and with the higher speeds observed in a particular area, that’s where the speed limits might be increased.
In the words of City Councilman Tim Miller, in essence, he told Budd, the faster people drive, the higher the speed limits go.
