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oh Petition to lower the speed limit on Snyder Road and Luther Road We are hereby petitioning the Town of Aurora to officially request the Department of Transportation lower the speed limit on Snyder Road and Luther Road. The speed limits on these roads are unnecessarily high. Some of the main reasons for this are pedestrians and bicyclist are constantly traveling on these roads. Traveling at 45 MPH on Snyder and Luther Roads is dangerous. When these roads are busy, there isn't always room to move around pedestrians and bicyclist safely, but people take the risk and go round them. Also, people speed on these roads so it's even more dangerous than usual. Due to the reconstruction of these roads, the roads have now become a cut through for residences from Hamburg, Boston and Orchard Park to East Aurora. This has increased the traffic on these roads immensely. These travelers have no regard for the residences on these roads, much less the bikers and pedestrians and commonly travel at 50 MPH or higher. The residence of Snyder and Luther Roads have contacted the police on several occasions with request to monitor these roads more often. These requests have fallen on deaf ears. On Snyder and Luther Roads, 45 MPH is too high because there are blind spots where driveways are located. Statistics also show that these roads are too dangerous. Some examples that prove this are: At 20 MPH 9 out of 10 people will survive. At 30 MPH 5 out of 10 people will survive. At 40 mph 2 out of 10 people will survive. At just 5 MPH over the speed limit, you are twice as likely to kill someone. If this doesn't change, accidents and/or death will occur. If we reduce these roads by 10 MPH, more people will survive if they get hit. 10 MPH makes a huge difference when it comes to someone surviving. This speed change could rise the number of people who survive. Overall, we are requesting the Town to petition the Department of Transportation to improve the safety of these roads to lower accidents and death risk. We would like to make a change in our community where residences, bicyclist and pedestrians feel safe traveling to and from their homes so the whole community is safe on these roads. RECEIVED APR 07 2026 _ TOWN OF AURORA FOWN CLERKS OFFICE