According to the Tallahassee Police Department, as of March 31, the city’s school speed zone enforcement program went live at two school zones. The two school zones are Ruediger Elementary/Raa Middle School near North MLK Jr. Blvd. & W. Tharpe St. and Desoto Trail Elementary School on Kerry Forest Pkwy.
The program came about after TPD, and the City’s Technology and Innovations Department completed a review of the program’s potential impact on public safety. A traffic study was conducted at Leon County public schools for one day during the proposed hours of enforcement. The study revealed that more than one hundred vehicles exceeded the posted speed limit by at least ten miles per hour. In all, more than 47,000 violations were observed during the study. It is anticipated that these violations will dramatically decrease with the initiation of the program.
Program History …