Oak Park speeding is detested

I was stunned at the juxtaposition of the two speeding-related articles published on the front page of the Jan. 31 Acorn: one including a photograph of the demolished Oak Park sign and the carnage from an out-of-control speeding Ferrari blamed, in part, on a rain-slick street, and another concerning the excessive and apparently accepted speeding situation of the "country road/racetrack" of Oak Hills Drive.

The 1,500 or so vehicles a day (only 85 percent are speeding?) are sharing that thoroughfare with hundreds of pedestrians who are walking their dogs, jogging, pushing their babies, riding their bikes, and otherwise trying to enjoy that .8-mile stretch of "an accident waiting to happen," an accident that will most likely be a tragic one seeing as there is not one marked pedestrian crossing lane along the entire distance.

The drivers who use the nine intersections and seven residential driveways also have to deal with that curving roadway and dread that accident prediction until it happens except it has already happened many times already: a head-on collision and a parked car demolished by a speeding van both within the last several months; a car trying to back out of a residential driveway at the unfortunate time of high school first period, my driveway.

Sure, go ahead and capitulate to the unlawful and raise the speed limit to 40. Then go ahead and raise the speed limit to 60 on Kanan Road. Put up a new sign to replace the one that was leveled and have it read "Welcome to Oak Park, Go as Fast as You Dare." Bob Underhill Oak Park