The Traffic Advisory Committee is looking to make traveling through the center of town safer by potentially adding a 30-mile-per-hour speed limit sign or establishing a safety zone on Main Street.

Police Sergeant and committee chairman Joshua Oliver said the concern is that drivers or their cars’ smart cameras are not registering the speed limit change between Davis Straits and Main Street, as the last visible sign a car registers is on Davis Straits, which indicates the limit as 35 mph. However, Main Street’s limit drops to 30 mph. Since there are no signs marking that change, many drivers are not slowing down as they enter downtown.

Nicholas Croft, civil engineering technician with the Department of Public Works, cautioned against adding a 30-mph sign as it’s still “too fast” for the a

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