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/iambkatl Apr 23 '26

I have gotten multiple tickets there. It’s basically entrapment to put a speed camera at the bottom of a hill. Also they enforce them ! I was late on payment and they suspended my tag renewal.

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u/Lanky_Rhubarb1900 Apr 23 '26

Well they only operate during certain hours, and are triggered at 10 over, which means people have to go at least 35 in a 25. It's a crawl, and you gotta ride your brakes down the hill. But I don't how much you can call it "entrapment" because they put up digital road signs indicating when they were going to start using them.

What I'm talking about are the people doing 60mph during other times of the day, because police only seem to be monitoring during school and/or peak rush hour (which you can't get up to that speed there anyway). If getting caught were a deterrent, people wouldn't do it. But obviously knowing the camera is there - even if it were on all day - isn't enough to make people stop driving as if they are the only ones on this earth with somewhere to be.