At the August 10, 2026 meeting of Town Council, Mayor Banks was reminded of his own words in early 2024 regarding speeding: “there’s a lot of speeding all throughout town” and “literally someone nearly ran me over walking into the building today”.
In the public comment section of the meeting, The Reporter said that a draft ordinance had been transmitted to Council to reduce the speed limit on the municipally owned section of Garden Street from 30 MPH to 25 MPH. The township solicitor stated that an ordinance cannot be passed without an engineering study that demonstrates a speed reduction is justified.
After the meeting, Mayor Banks told The Reporter that he believed a speed reduction on just the municipal part of Garden Street “did not make sense” and would invite legal challenges. Banks suggested that a more sensible approach was to convince the County that the entire length of Rancocas Road from the Bypass to High Street should be a 25 MPH zone.
Since Bank’s suggestion would require that the County conduct its own engineering traffic study along the noted section of Rancocas Road, The Reporter wrote to County Commissioner Pullion suggesting that a study be conducted. Pullion responded that the County was willing to consider it, but could not launch a study on the basis of a single resident request. Pullion suggested that the Mayor or an administrator with the town contact the County’s engineer and set up a meeting to discuss it.
Mr. Mayor, the ball is back in your court. If you don’t believe the township should just attempt to reduce the speed limit on its own road and think it is more sensible to convince the County to undertake that effort on Rancocas Road, please reach out to the County Engineer.
