Cherryvale city councilors overrode a veto by Mayor John Wright that will allow the speed limit on West Main Street to remain 30 miles per hour during non-school hours.

At the council’s Sept. 21 meeting, councilors voted 4-0 to approve the standard traffic ordinance for 2009, which sets 20 mile per hour speed zones in designated areas of the community. Mayor John Wright had been lobbying councilors to include West Main Street near the McKinley School as an area for a 20 mile per hour zone because, he said, of the volume of kids and adults who use the McKinley School property for athletic practices each evening. Wright lives one block east of the McKinley School property and has stated that he has been concerned about the speed limit in that neighborhood because of the volume of pedestrians and motor vehicle traffic.

Councilors had other ideas and adopted the 20 mile per hour speed zone list to not include West Main Street.

At the conclusion of the vote, Wright issued a rare veto on the ordinance, which councilors then voted 4-0 to override.

Under the ordinance, the area along West Main Street at McKinley School will remain a 20 mile per hour speed zone from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., each school day but be extended to 30 miles per hour at all other areas.

Areas of the city to have a 20 mile per hour speed zone include:

• Willow Street, from North Liberty Street to Neosho Street.

• Neosho Street, from Willow Street to Front Street.

• Park Street, from Liberty Street to Walnut Street.

• Clark Street, from Liberty Street to Walnut Street.

• Main Street, from Summit Street to Liberty Street.

• Carson Street, from Main Street to 11th Street.

• Ninth Street, from Galveston Street to Carson Street.

• Galveston Street, from Seventh Street to Ninth Street.

In addition, the area around Lake Tanko Park is designated a 10 mile per hour speed zone.

The ordinance — No. 09-4583 — is printed elsewhere in this edition of the Montgomery County Chronicle.