Photo by Tobye Cook Seck of Suffield Academy.
Men involved in an effort to calm vehicle speed in the town center pose next to the radar speed sign recently donated by Suffield Academy and installed by the Town. From the left: SPD Chief Richard Brown, Academy Headmaster Charles Cahn III, Police Commission Chairman Kevin Armata.
Suffield Academy (www.suffieldacademy.org/page), a co-educational independent secondary school serving a community of boarding and day students, located on North Main Street Suffield, recently partnered with the Suffield Police Department to help make North Main Street safer for students, school staff, and residents of Suffield alike.
Suffield Academy purchased and generously donated an electronic speed detection device to the Suffield Police Department. This device uses radar technology to track the speed of vehicles traveling southbound on North Main Street towards both the Suffield Academy campus and the town center. This device was recently mounted next to the southbound lane on North Main Street just south of Marbern Drive by the Suffield Highway Department.
This collaborative effort was undertaken in order to reduce speeds and promote traffic calming of vehicles being driven into the populated area of Suffield Town Center where the Suffield Academy is located. This area is one of frequent citizen complaints made to the Suffield Police for vehicles speeding in excess of the posted 30 mph zone by both cars and commercial trucks.