The police have set up radar a few times on lower oakwood ave. It was comical to watch the officer pulling speeders over one after the other. It was like shooting fish in a barrel !

There still are no speed limit signs anywhere near the residential areas on oakwood ave.

I brought this up to someone in city hall a few years ago and was told speed limit signs were not necessary since everyone knows that the speed limit in the city of Troy is 30mph.

That's fine for downtown areas of Troy where you can't even go 30 mph but oakwood ave is like a speedway all day and night. It needs speed signs and constant enforcement.

This video shows what I am talking about. This speeder is the norm on Oakwood ave, not the exception.

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v517/esop/?action=view&current=P1010023.mp4&mediafilter=videos

Notice ross valve on the left.

Thanks for the email asking if this is still an issue. Yes it is.

The police haven't set up radar on the lower part of Oakwood Ave since late spring. While the neighborhood appreciated them doing radar on those 3 or 4 occassions... it's going to take a lot more than that to get people to slow down here.

The speeders are free to speed down the hill without consequence since the police don't do radar anymore.

The only place I regularly see police set up doing radar is on hoosick street. State and city police are involved in this.

Maybe the state police can run radar on lower rte 40 since it is a state route?

The speeders on lower Oakwood Ave (between Middleburgh and Hoosick) are still out of control. The limit is 30mph and since there is little to no enforcement by the police, drivers are routinely travelling 15-20mph over the limit without worry. It is dangerous and eventually, a pedestrian will be killed.

On March 14th two of our legally parked vehicles were smashed into & totalled by a speeder. This speeding was going so fast that after he totalled our 2 vehicles, he continued on down Oakwood Ave and crashed into a 3rd parked vehicle! The picture of the blue car is the speeding vehicle. It was going so fast that it ripped the front end right off it and wedged it under one of the parked cars it hit.

I am not the only one who sees this as a real problem. Someone posted this to the "sound off" section of the Troy Record today....

There is a speed limit...

To all those motorists who frequently take Oakwood Avenue, there is a speed limit of 30 mph from the lower section of Oakwood Avenue.

The same exact thing happened in 2006 to two of our parked vehicles on Oakwood Ave. A speeder crashed into them and totalled both. Below is a picture (taken in front of 10 Oakwood Ave) from that accident.

Because the speeder only had the state minimum liability coverage of $10k, we ended up losing about $5k because our vehicles were worth $15k and we did not carry collision insurance.

Speeding on Oakwood Ave is not a new problem. We really need some continued enforcement over here before one of thee crazy speeders crashes into people instead of just vehicles.

thank you

Speeding still a daily issue on oakwood ave hill between frear park and hoosick st. ABout 6 months ago, the deputy mayor told the TU column "getting there", that he'd be installing one of those "your speed is" radar signs to get the people to slow down. That never happened.

The neighborhood appreciates it when the police do come and set up radar but that only happens once every 3 months it seems.

Hooskick street has almost daily speed traps by at least 3 different police depts. The state police, the sheriffs and the Troy PD. Yes, hoosick is a busy street but by design, traffic isn't generally able to get to 50mph like it does daily on Oakwood ave.

I really think it would be beneficial to put speed limit signs on Oakwood Ave from Frear park down the hill to Hoosick street. Even the 18 wheelers carrying tons of dirt go faster than 30 mph down the hill. The police haven't done radar in this area for 6 months or longer.

I am not sure if speed limit signs would do it, I'd rather there were traffic-enforcement cameras. I live by Oakwood Cemetery and I know that even though we are between a pair of 30 mph signs, people still go by at much more than that; especially during the morning and afternoon commutes.

There's no way enforcement cameras will be put up to catch speeders. It would be a great idea but it's just not going to happen. Can you iagine the revenue 1 or 2 enforcement cameras on Oakwood ave hill between middleburgh and hoosick would generate though?! WOW!

The speeding problem on Oakwood Ave hill (from frear park down to hoosick st) continues. Vehicles (even fully loaded 18 wheel dump trucks) routinely travel 15 -20+ mph over the not so obviously posted 30mph speed limit. To their credit, the police do radar in this area (at the bottom of the hill near Sausse ave & Archibald st.) about once every 4 months with one police car.... that I have seen.

When they do set up, they race off, pulling over a vehicle just as fast as they can get parked again. It's comical to watch the police car speed off in hot pursuit, come back 5-10 mins later, park for 30 seconds and then zoom off after another speeder. Over and over until the officer gets bored, gives up & leaves. Yes, it's that bad! It's like shooting fish in a barrel. It's going to take a lot of ongoing enforcement before people get back into the habot of driving the speedlimit on this stretch of road.

You want to fill the cities coffers... enforce the speed limit on lower oakwood ave daily.