By Tim SchmidtRecord Managing EditorMotorists soon will have to travel a tad slower on a stretch of North Stringtown Road.The Warren County Commission on Monday agreed to reduce the speed limit from 40 to 30 mph on the road between Cotton Road and Highway WW.All three commissioners voted to lower the speed limit. The decision was reached following a public hearing where only one person from the public was in attendance. No one spoke in opposition to the proposal.Ron Medley, who organized a petition drive that was submitted to the commission, had requested the change. An overwhelming majority of the residents who live in the area, located northeast of Wright City, favored the reduced speed.“There are two problems,” Medley said Monday. “On one side of the road it’s Incline Village. All of the homes are in such proximity of the road. Backing out is not possible. You defy death doing that.“That also is the only portion of Stringtown Road you could actually go 70 mph,” he said. “There are no curves. If you are running late, that is the stretch where you can really go fast.”The speed limit on the rest of North Stringtown Road will remain 40 mph. That is the limit set on nearly all of hard-surface roads in the county. The limit on county gravel roads is 30 mph.The new speed limit is expected to be enforced within a month’s time, Southern District Commissioner Hubie Kluesner said. The county will have to erect multiple signs and notify law enforcement agencies of the change.Presiding Commissioner Roger Mauzy noted that the county road sees a large amount of traffic and was a favorite detour when bridges were being replaced on Highway J.“It was a mess,” he said. “All that traffic was being diverted, it was terrible.”The county commission said they are open to similar requests if the majority of residents or property owners back a proposal.“They know more about the traffic than the county commission,” Kluesner said. “We have to rely on them.”Reduced Speed