By Mary Thurwachter
Another traffic study is due for South Lake Drive, south of Ocean Avenue and around the corner from the Old Key Lime House.
The Lantana Town Council authorized the count at its Jan. 27 meeting in response to complaints from nearby residents about high traffic and sometime excessive speeds.
The town previously authorized traffic counts from March 27 to April 3 last year, but residents said that wasn’t the best gauge of the problem since the bridge was closed at the time.
Now that the Ocean Avenue Bridge has re-opened and the shopping and restaurant area is more vibrant, a new count should be done, residents said.
“We said we would do this before and we should do what we said we would do,” council member Phil Aridas said.
Results from the March 27-April 3 counts showed the volume of average daily trips recorded as 290 cars southbound and 178 cars northbound for a total average daily volume of 468.
“These are minimal volumes,” Mayor Dave Stewart said.
Last year’s study also reflected that 95 percent of the cars did not exceed 20 miles per hour.
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