If a Michigan gravel road has no posted speed limit the legal speed limit is 55 MPH. Rochester Hills had a traffic speed study of actual driver speeds done and recommended that Oakland Township join them in posting 40 MPH speed limit signs. Our Oakland Township Board of Trustees rejected that and voted for a counterproposal of 30 MPH. They felt that posting 40 MPH would likely cause an unsafe increase in speeds. I think this conclusion was sound and based on time spent (without pay) of the Board subcommittee’s (Buxar, Reilly, Ferriolo) and other Board members studying the issue thoroughly. See video of Board of Trustees meeting 10/24, Chapter 6 – Agenda 8/2 to see the discussion (about 20 minutes). The speeds that cars actually travelled during the study can be seen in the board packet.