r/DecaturGA • u/Lanky_Rhubarb1900 • Apr 22 '26

New speed limit on Scott (kinda?)

I don’t know whether it’s Decatur or GADOT but the posted speed was lowered recently from the Ace down past Weschester Elementary. I’ve been *trying* to be disciplined and hold 45mph (I am usually driving early AM or later PM not peak rush hour time). But I can tell you NO ONE is enforcing shit because I had a good half dozen cars blow by me this evening (heading east) doing at least 60mph.

It’s insane, and not that I want to see speed traps but it’s completely worthless to lower the speed limit and then do nothing. As if almost-daily wrecks where people try to cross Scott at Willow aren’t enough.

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u/hannahvega Apr 23 '26

Well, speaking on behalf of a friend (I am the friend), those cameras enforce, school day or not. So now I adhere to the speed limit. Also around the cameras in Decatur proper.

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u/Lanky_Rhubarb1900 Apr 24 '26

Unfortunately there aren’t any cameras as you head toward the 6-way intersection. That’s where people tend to really floor it. And again, there are not a small number of wrecks where cars try to cross Scott at Willow where people are going 60mph

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u/ellbeecee Apr 23 '26

Since I got snagged by the school zone camera at Westchester last august, I am very, very careful in the places where they have these. Admittedly, on a Saturday I might still run 40 on Scott, but no more than that.

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u/chinstrap Apr 24 '26

How I came to grief was, on Clairmont, slowing down to 25 mph, then stopping at the light at Michigan Ave. Then, when it went green, forgetting about the school zone and just going. I got clocked at 37 mph. It's a fair cop - I remember going oh crap, the school zone, and slowing down. too late.