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April 14, 2026 11 mins
Mike isn't a big "let me speak to your manager" person, but thinks someone should say something about the changed speed limit is his neighborhood. Is he just being a big Karen about it? 
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Are you like dying to get this off your chest?
I feel yes, Or are you like a little bit nervous,
like you don't want to talk about it.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
I don't know how I feel about it.

Speaker 3 (00:08):
Honestly, I'm kind of I kind of want to talk
about it because I'm not really the guy who complains,
Like I'm not the guy if something bothers me, I
handle it or or I yell about it in the garage,
like I'm not the guy who's like writing on Facebook
like groups, you know what I mean, complaining about stuff.
I could never live in an hoa because that would

(00:29):
drive me nuts. I'm just not that guy. If it
bothers me, I'll either handle it, fix it in some way,
or just.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
It's it's gone in the universe. I don't care.

Speaker 3 (00:39):
However, this, for some reason is is making me feel
like I'm being a little bit of a Karen and
I probably am to be honest with you. I would
love be honest, because if I am, then I'm just
gonna shut it down and leave this alone if there's
nothing I can do. So I live in like the
line of Jennison in Hudsonville, like right on the line,

(01:00):
and there's a road by my house. It's called Rosewood,
And if you know the area at all, it's like
a like a normal like side street in the neighborhood
and it goes by a park and it's it's just
like a neighborhood road. It's a little busy, but it's
not like if you've ever been to Jennison Hudsonville area,

(01:20):
it's not as busy as Chicago Drive. It's nothing like
Chicago Drive. It's nothing like Cottonwood, it's nothing like Baldwin Street.
Those are like two lane on each side, four lane
like roads. Those are all The speed limit on all
those roads are except for Chicago Drive is forty five
miles per hour.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
Oh oh, I see where we're going here.

Speaker 3 (01:39):
This road, which is it's not directly connected to my house,
but it's very close to my house. My kids we walk,
we take walks there like we ride bikes down that road.
Is now that the speed limits now up to fifty
miles an hour. And again, this is like a side street.
And I saw this and I went, this is not

(01:59):
like a this is not cool. Like they can't extend
the road anywhere, so it's not like they're gonna build
this into a bigger road. It's a side street, and
it's fifty miles an hour is fast on a side street.
I thought it was a joke at first, and then
my car changed even and like the signs are up now,
and I'm like what, And again, I'm not like the

(02:22):
I've never in my entire life gone to a manager
even and been like been like, let me talk to
your manager.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
I've never done that.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
I'll either argue about it in that moment and then
just be done with it, or I'll walk away. Yeah,
but I want to like call somebody. I want to
like write somebody again, this is not look at listen.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
To my voice. It's too fast. It's way too fast.
It's way too fast. It's way too fast.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
I don't even I don't know, like who you would
contact about that. Somebody with the city, I would think,
but I don't. I don't know who.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
Do we vote on speed limits? Is that a thing?
I don't know. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
I know it's a whole process. If you have like
an intersection where you want to like put in a
light or put in a stop sign or something like that,
I think you have to like petition for it and
like get signatures and stuff. But I don't know about this.

Speaker 3 (03:09):
Never I've never thought to even have this as an
issue because I've always been the other way where I'm like, yeah,
we need to go faster, we need but this is
like a residential neighborhood.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
There is no way this speed limit should be fifty
What do you think it should be?

Speaker 3 (03:23):
Uh, forty five felt fast to me. Forty five. It
was forty five when I moved there, and that feels fast,
like forty thirty five forty It's not a busy road. Yeah,
it's like a connector to like, like it's like a
side street to busier roads. And there are four different
roads that surround it that are not even that fast

(03:45):
except for Chicago Drive.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
Yeah, somebody in the Bean Nutty three listener family will
know what to do.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
Maybe I'm being a carry.

Speaker 3 (03:50):
Maybe I needs to shut up and that's the speed limit,
and that's just what it is.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
I don't know. Good morning, Welcome to the B ninety
three Morning Show. What's your name? Where you're from?

Speaker 4 (03:57):
Oh? My name's Andy and I'm from Holland.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
And I think I'm being kind of a car in here.

Speaker 3 (04:02):
But I feel like the speed limit by my house
that just got changed to fifty is way too fast.

Speaker 4 (04:09):
You are one hundred percent right, okay, And the Ottawa
County Road Commission guys that put the sign up, agree
with you one hundred percent. But unfortunately, speed limits aren't
set by the road commission. They're not set by the township.
Because the township actually petitioned to lower the speed limit.
Yes on Rosewood. Yes, And the state police do a

(04:33):
study and the study showed that the speed limit should
be raised because it's based on the speed that people travel.
So if you ever watch your speed limit raised, you
just get everybody to speed down the road when they're
doing their study and they'll raise it. But I lower it.
It actually has to go through the state.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
What it has to go through a state to lower it.

Speaker 3 (04:55):
That's so wild And so basically what you're saying, I
hope I heard that is that because everybody was driving faster,
we've decided now as a state to make that speed
limit faster.

Speaker 4 (05:07):
Yeap, ridiculous, isn't it? What? That's good?

Speaker 2 (05:10):
Crazy?

Speaker 4 (05:11):
Everybody breaks the law, so we'll change the law rather
than in portion.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
That's gray z. That's such a fat it's so fat.

Speaker 3 (05:19):
Think about a side road here in Grand Rapids, like
any side road and it being fifty five.

Speaker 2 (05:24):
That's nuts.

Speaker 4 (05:25):
Hey, I know the exact road you're talking about because
I have been down there a thousand times and I
worked for the Road Commission, And well you said the
same thing when the signs were being changed that it
is just reridiculous.

Speaker 2 (05:42):
Yeah, thank you for the call, and thank you for
everything you do. We appreciate you.

Speaker 4 (05:46):
Yeah, thank you. Have a good day you too.

Speaker 1 (05:49):
I didn't know any of that.

Speaker 2 (05:50):
I didn't know that either.

Speaker 3 (05:51):
It sounds like it's going to take a lot of
noise to make anything happen.

Speaker 1 (05:56):
So are you going to be the guy that stands
on Rosewood now and just like points at cars slow down?

Speaker 2 (06:02):
No? No, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (06:04):
And I any other time, in any other scenario, if
somebody was to do that in normal neighborhoods, I would.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
Go, Okay, it's not that serious. They're not going that fast.
But like fifty is so fast on this road, and it's.

Speaker 1 (06:17):
One thing, right if this is just like people constantly
speed on this road, but the posted sign is like
thirty five or whatever, but now they've increased. So what
was it before?

Speaker 3 (06:28):
Did you say it was forty or forty five, but
people even then, I would barely and I'm if the
officers are listening, this is allegedly, but I'm barely a
speed limit guy. I'm always about five over right, And
I couldn't hit forty five on that road because it
felt way too way, way too fast. But like if
they were speeding a little going with it when it

(06:49):
being forty or forty five, imagine now it's fifty. Now
they're gonna speed a little bit more fifty five sixty, Like,
why don't we just go, Hey, we know it. The
people are gonna go a little bit faster, So let's
make it a little bit lower. Let's make it forty
so that they maybe hit forty five.

Speaker 1 (07:04):
I know that there are people out there that have
had that have gone through this entire process. I know
that it is a process, but I know that this
has been done before, where neighborhoods and like communities have
had the speed limit reduced, right.

Speaker 2 (07:18):
Yeah, or anything?

Speaker 4 (07:19):
Have you?

Speaker 3 (07:19):
Yeah, have you ever had to do this with like
your neighborhood, And like, nobody wants to complain, right, nobody
wants to do that, But sometimes I guess you gotta, right, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (07:29):
Initially worked because you said, there's like a playground right there.

Speaker 2 (07:32):
There's a huge park right there.

Speaker 1 (07:34):
Yeah, six one six two four to two ninety three,
ninety three. Mike thinks that he has officially reached a
new stage in life.

Speaker 2 (07:42):
I yeah, I don't know. Maybe I'm being a carrot
Karen here as my voice goes out. Maybe I'm just
getting older.

Speaker 3 (07:49):
No, maybe I do feel like I because one of
my biggest if I could name my biggest flaw that
I have is that sometimes when a complaint needs to happen,
I'll just go, oh, you know what, I'll take care
of it.

Speaker 2 (08:01):
I'll handle it. I don't know what that's called. I
don't know what to call that.

Speaker 3 (08:04):
But I'm not the first person to be like, I'm
gonna let me talk to your manager right now. Like
I'll complain about it for a second, or I'll talk
about it for a second and then likely either handle
it myself or walk away from the situation. But I'm
not the first person to go, I want to talk
to your manager about this. So, but there's a road
by my house. It's called Rosewood. I live in the
Hudsonville Jennison area. And if you know what it is.

(08:27):
It's like a very short stretch. It's a straight road
that comes off to Chicago Drive, and for the longest time,
it's been like forty five miles an hour. And I
drive that almost every single day, and I push like
I'm if cops are listening. I always drive the speed
limit for the sake of the story. Sometimes I go
a little bit faster sometimes and I can't hit forty

(08:49):
five on that road because it feels too fast. There's
sidewalks everywhere, there's a giant park right there. They just
change it, and I don't know when it happened to
fifty miles an hour, and it feels way too fast
for like a residential street. Like think of any side
street you could think of, and now put that speed
limit at fifty miles an hour. However, I do feel

(09:13):
like I'm being a bit of a Karen because I'm
I want to, like, go talk to somebody.

Speaker 2 (09:16):
How do I get this lowered? What do I do?

Speaker 1 (09:20):
But like, one day you're just living your life. The
next day you're standing out on shit Rosewood Street shaking
your shaking my fist.

Speaker 3 (09:27):
We'll driving by, And I'm not the type to even
do that to walk outside and shake my fist. But
I do want to talk to Like, I do want
to go talk to somebody about this. I do want
to send like send Do I send it in a letter?

Speaker 4 (09:38):
Is it? Like?

Speaker 2 (09:38):
Do you cause?

Speaker 3 (09:39):
I Again, I'm not the person that'll go to the
neighborhood watch uh like Facebook page and go and complain
about this. I would rather go talk to somebody and
be like, how can we fix this? Like what is
what was there? What was the thought process behind moving
it up to fifty? Because if if I went to Facebook.
We got some comments on face ninety three dot com

(10:01):
and one of the comments that most of them are like, yeah,
you're you're probably right, but one of them that I
really liked was you're you're not right.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
It's been forty five.

Speaker 3 (10:09):
It's been forty five this entire time, and people were
going fifty to fifty four, So what does it matter
if they bump it up five miles an hour? My
response to that is, well, if they were going fifty
to fifty four at forty five, right at fifty, wouldn't
it be like fifty five to sixty?

Speaker 2 (10:25):
Yeah? I don't know. Do you ever do that? Have
you ever done this? In your neighborhood. You ever complained
about something and like got it fixed.

Speaker 1 (10:31):
I've never successfully had anything fixed.

Speaker 3 (10:34):
No, see, So that's that's that's my thought here is
like am I just yelling about nothing?

Speaker 2 (10:40):
And it's gonna stay exactly the same.

Speaker 1 (10:41):
Anyways, you know what my complaint is in my neighborhood,
and it's just that like people drop their trash off
in my trash cans because I'm like right on the alley.
My trash cans are like right there. They're convenient. I
get that, and I would much rather you drop your
trash in my trash can than litter. Sure, but also
like I pay for my trash, put it in your
own trash where you pay for your.

Speaker 2 (11:03):
Trash, that's one hundred percent. And so like who would
you rite? Who would you even complain to?

Speaker 1 (11:08):
How would you She's gonna start putting a lock on
my trash can?

Speaker 3 (11:11):
So do I just get my own rumble strip and
just start putting it into the road.

Speaker 2 (11:16):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (11:16):
You gotta get one of those like yellow high viz
like kid statues with a flag that's a.

Speaker 2 (11:24):
Slow Yes, I know exactly what you're talking about, and
just like.

Speaker 1 (11:26):
Put it out there just seems anonymously or maybe not
so much.

Speaker 2 (11:31):
Now, I don't care.

Speaker 3 (11:32):
I would, I would, I would if this is the
way I can get people to listen by shouting from
the rooftop, Hey slow down, then fine, but I'm not
gonna I don't have time to stand on the road
and shake my fist at people.

Speaker 2 (11:43):
I feel you, I feel you.

Speaker 1 (11:45):
We got some calls coming in, so either we got
a lot of people that agree or maybe not.

Speaker 2 (11:50):
That's fine.

Speaker 1 (11:51):
To six one six two four to two ninety three,
ninety three
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