Motorists who have railed about having to drive 35 mph when leaving Iola’s city limit on State Street have been heard.
Allen County Sheriff Bryan Murphy asked commissioners Tuesday to raise the limit to 45, to mesh with the legal speed south of Elm Creek and on to where the old highway curves east to U.S. 169. There the limit increases to 55 mph.
For years the limit was 55 from the city limit on south and was changed in 2010 at the behest of Tom Williams, then sheriff and now a commissioner. His motivation was three traffic fatalities in a…
South State speed limit raised to 45
