Georgia’s Department of Transportation appears open to helping Decatur establish uniform speed limits, according to Assistant City Manager David Junger. For several years the city’s examined the possibility of 25 miles per hour limits on most residential streets, and 30 to 35 mph in other areas. A major impediment has been the DOT’s 85/15 test, where a limit’s determined safe if 85 percent of the drivers adhere to the stated speed or go slower.

“We believe there has to be other criterion besides the 85 percentile,” Junger said. “In Decatur you also have to consider the street designs, the number of children in neighborhoods and the frequency of driveways.”

Junger said he’s drafting a document ‘justifying changing the speed limits on defined streets” that he’ll send to the DOT next week.

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The renovation of Jekyll Island's Great Dunes golf course includes nine holes designed by Walter Travis in the 1920s for the members of the Jekyll Island Club. Several holes that were part of the original layout where located along the beach and were bulldozed in the 1950s.(Photo by Austin Kaseman)

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