Video: Speeding on Saratoga's Allendale Avenue

Yikes and double yikes ...

We parked this weekend on Allendale Avenue at Quito Road after several residents who live in the neighborhood emailed us to complain about speeders on the narrow and rural two-way road.

Saratoga Patch readers who contacted this editor were right. Despite median 25-mph markers, cars were zooming down the street going in both directions, east and west.

Saratoga resident Tommy Stroup is one of those residents who's predicting a major wreck here if motorists don't slow down.

Stroup, who's lived in a house on Allendale Avenue since 2005, said Santa Clara County sheriff's patrols on motorcycles do a good job at ticketing drivers.

However, he said, as soon as the deputies leave, drivers start speeding again.

Stroup said the speeding on the road is "a common affair" because West Valley College is just down the street generating a lot of traffic.

"It's just people. It's supposed to be 25 miles per hour, but as you can see they're all going faster."

Residents on Allendale Avenue must also be cautious when backing out of their driveways into the road.

Stroup said the median speed-limit signs were installed about a year ago, but are not working.