Cherokee County OKs speed humps for rural road
People who live along Upper Dowda Mill Road in northern Cherokee County will get their wish for speed humps – six, instead of the 11 originally sought – after the county Board of Commissioners approved the modified request.
The humps would start at the Cherokee-Pickens county line and extend south along Upper Dowda Mill toward Lower Dowda Mill Road, according to county documents. Residents petitioned for 11 humps total, spaced 300 feet apart, but Cherokee Fire Marshal Chad Arp asked that the number be reduced to six.
Arp and members of the county engineering department drove the stretch of road and calculated travel time would increase from about 100 seconds without the 11 humps to roughly 170 seconds with them. Reducing the humps to a maximum of six would reduce by almost one-half the increased emergency response time on the street, Arp said.
