The Holly Springs Town Council voted down a request by a resident to reduce the speed limit on Main Street from Oak Hall Drive to Sunset Lake Road from 45 mph to 35 mph.

According to the Town Council's agenda, a resident asked for the speed limit reduction.

A committee made of town staff known as the Transportation Negotiation Team, recommended that the town council deny this request to reduce the speed limit.

A representative from TNT said that the group recommended speed reductions in the past for various areas including parts of Holly Springs Road and Bass Lake Road, but the group does not recommend this particular speed reduction request.

The group lists the following reasons:

- Several vacant parcels
- Not an abundance of driveways cut
- A very wide typical section
- No signed and painted pedestrian crossing
- No schools (walkers)
- No major parks along the frontage
- No major sight distance issues
- Commercial areas are set back off roadway
- There is not a speed gap that needs addressing.
- There is adequate lane width
- There are vertical alignment challenges, a steep grade...difficult for tractor trailers traffic to go 35 mph down the hill and then get up speed on the uphill.

According to the agenda attachment, the resident asks that the speed limit be changed to keep consistent with other speed limits in town.

The resident also states that it's difficult to turn onto Main Street from side streets in the area because of the speed of drivers.

The resident also has safety concerns because of daycare businesses and bus routes along the road.

The town council agreed with staff recommend ations and voted to keep the speed limit at 45 mph.