Lower Speed Limit On Colima Road in Housing Areas

Please help us! Our health and wildlife depend on it.

This matter concerns the health and well being of humans and their animals residing on or just off of Colima Road in Hacienda Heights. Just a few years ago the speed limit was 40 miles per hour and was raised to 50 MPH in a residential zone that sits between Countrywood and Hacienda Road. We have schools blocks away and two churches within the stretch of Colima we petition to slow down. 

The fact that the speed limit was raised 10 miles per hour has turned Colima road into a freeway. When the speed limit was changed from 40 to 50 we saw a drastic increase in accidents and just recently many vehicles have crashed into the community walls that serve to protect the homes. Traffic such as large trucks are being redirected from highway 60 to Colima which poses a even larger problem for home owners, children, elderly and pedestrians. 

Wildlife cannot cross without being hit and skunks have become the local air freshener. Young drivers are using Colima road as a race track and  hitting and killing animals. We do not see CHP in this zone unless there is an accident. Due to the elevated risk, the police don't want to stand on Colima in the stretch from Countrywood to hacienda blvd to write a ticket. 

Bicyclists are  afraid to use the bike Lanes. One of our neighbors was hit at Countrywood and Colima. 

Semi trucks with heavy loads are rattling houses at 2 a.m. Motorcycles with excessive noise spewing from their illegal pipes which serve to wake up children at all hours of the night. Speed limit increase has re-routed fire  trucks using Colima & people cannot sleep.

GPS is re-routing freeway traffic to Colima because of the change in speed limit. Compound all of that with the emissions and several neighbors who live along the stretch now have chronic upper respiratory disease. 

We did not buy our homes next to a 50MPH highway that isn't being policed. 

The speed on Colima road, on average, in the evening, or after 11 p.m. exceeds 70 miles per hour. They often do 80-100 mph and no police around. The semi trucks run straight through red lights and blow their horn while doing so. 

We have elderly citizens who live in the area that cannot safely turn onto Colima from streets that do not have a stoplight. Crosswalks are now unsafe. 

What residents would like is the speed limit returned to the original speed of (40mph) so GPS stops re-directing highway traffic to Colima and our roads are once again safe for pedestrians, cyclists and wildlife. 

We would like police to Patrol and cite people for excessive speed and illegal exhaust. 

Please sign this petition, so we have support to make that happen. 

Thank you!