Fallbrook freeway is open

I wrote about traffic speeds before the opening of school in the Fall of 2011. There is a crossing of Fallbrook Street at Heald Lane in a 25-mile-per-hour zone. Leading up to that stretch, the speed limit is 40 miles an hour with a sign saying “Senior Center ahead.” This is also the street the Fallbrook Community Center is off of, where they have activities day and night.

Checking with anyone who has tried to cross there will assure you that drivers often speed by above 40 miles an hour in the 25-mile-an-hour zone. That has not changed in the last three years.

As I was crossing Fallbrook at Mo...