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Natick was selected to participate in a federally funded "new study, designed to make speed limits more realistic." The idea is to set a reasonable speed limit that would be obeyed by the majority of drivers and then ticket the ones who are truly dangerous.
So what do the state officials do?
They post yellow, only advisory 35 mph signs on six streets, and because a lot of the residents on those streets don't understand the study, the bureaucrats take a chunk of the $300,000 grant earmarked to educate the residents about the project and give it to the Natick police instead! So now what's happening is that people are getting pulled over for driving 36 mph on roads where the speeds averaged 35 mph before ...
Does that sound like something that's making speed limits more realistic? How is this going to "re-instill credibility" in speed limits, which was one of the objectives of the study?
But most importantly, can you say "MISAPPROPRIATION OF FEDERAL FUNDS?"
Anyway, until the money runs out, watch yourselves on Hartford, Pine, Cottage, Union, South Main and Walnut streets in Natick. And take your tickets to court - yellow signs are only advisory.