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Old 08-05-2014, 11:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Cathy H View Post
the shame here is that this intersection was not properly designed by the developers consultants but was accepted by sumpter county traffic administrators, and the villagers had to pay the bill to fix it
The intersection WAS engineered to handle the traffic flow. The fly in the ointment was the absolute refusal of drivers on Colony to adhere to the 20mph speed limit, thus deterring the safe ingress onto Colony from the multi-modal path.
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