Looks like speed bumps may not be needed to reduce traffic speeds on Clark Place in Maybrook.

At a village board meeting several months ago, residents of Clark Place and Logans’ Way urged officials to address what they saw as speeding and banned tractor trailer traffic on Clark Place. Maybrook Road connects Neelytown Road in the Town of Montgomery to Clark Place, which ends on Homestead Avenue (Rt. 208). Residents there alleged the local route was being used by tractor trailer and box trucks from the various businesses and warehouses in the area and by speeding passenger traffic. (Tractor trailers are banned on village streets.)

The village board had then decided to install flashing speed signs on Clark Place and have the village police patrol more frequently for the banned trucks.

At a recent meeting, Mayor Dennis Leahy reported that speeding has declined from a year ago and village officials will “revisit” the data monthly.

Traffic data for the period July 13-20, 2022, showed 49.1 percent of the total 9,204 vehicles exceeded the legal speed on Clark of 30 mph. New data for April 2023, Leahy said, shows approximately 28 percent of the 19,516 vehicles exceeded the 30 mph limit, a decrease of more than 20 percent. Although the village board had authorized investigating the installation of speed or “hump” bumps on Clark, Leahy said the flashing speed signs are “effective” per the data and officials will continue to monitor.