Southern Shores NC12 Speed Limit | OBX Connection Message Board

OBX Connection Home > OBX Connection Forum > Southern Shores NC12 Speed Limit

Southern Shores NC12 Speed Limit

Southern Shores NC12 Speed Limit
By: Pickle 8/5/2022	Posted By: Pickle - (Send PM) Member Since: 9/3/2009 Location: Kitty Hawk Total Posts: 3360 Experience: Date Posted: 8/5/2022 3:40 PM
Just to let you all know that the Southern Shores Board just reduced the Speed Limit on NC 12 to 35 MPH all year round. Down from 45 MPH. I'm a local resident, but I have sympathy for all of you who to go to Corolla on Vacation Saturday and Sunday. Likewise daily traffic especially on Cloudy and Rainy days. Oh Boy!

OBX Connection Sponsored Links

RE: Southern Shores NC12 Speed Limit
By: Tim-OBX 8/5/2022	Posted By: Tim-OBX - (Send PM) Member Since: 6/2/2004 Location: Kitty Hawk Total Posts: 24914 Experience: Date Posted: 8/5/2022 7:53 PM
Wow - that will be unpopular! No one here does the speed limit IF they can go faster so I doubt much will change. They are probably trying to get more votes for the bridge that will never come (in my lifetime).

RE: Southern Shores NC12 Speed Limit
By: Greg MD 8/5/2022	Posted By: Greg MD - (Send PM) Member Since: 3/10/2014 Location: Swamp Total Posts: 2959 Experience: Date Posted: 8/5/2022 9:04 PM
Everyone should toot their horn to show their support when driving through... slowly.

RE: Southern Shores NC12 Speed Limit
By: KDHBreeze 8/6/2022	Posted By: KDHBreeze - (Send PM) Member Since: 1/19/2016 Location: Total Posts: 2344 Experience: Date Posted: 8/6/2022 8:15 AM
They're going to love all the newly freed LSVs!

RE: Southern Shores NC12 Speed Limit
By: W&M OBX 8/6/2022	Posted By: W&M OBX - (Send PM) Member Since: 10/29/2012 Location: Nags Head Total Posts: 424 Experience: Date Posted: 8/6/2022 9:23 AM
The speed limit on 158 between the Wright Memorial Bridge and the water park in Powell's Point also recently changed. It was 55, now it's 45 mph. This is a permanent change, not seasonal. The bridge is still 55.

RE: Southern Shores NC12 Speed Limit
By: johnbt 8/6/2022	Posted By: johnbt - (Send PM) Member Since: 9/5/2019 Location: Richmond VA Total Posts: 430 Experience: Date Posted: 8/6/2022 1:09 PM
"the newly freed LSVs" I didn't know that LSVs were set up to run 20 to 25. Putt, putt, putt. "LSVs may be driven on roads with a speed limit of 35mph or less. As required by Federal law, the motors are built to operate between 20 - 25mph." All of my recent experience has been with the rental golf carts in Ocracoke - as measured by the portable radar signs they have on the shoulder - is that they don't go much faster than 14 to 17 mph. The one we had all of last week was 15 with a tail wind. And then there are the folks who won't run them wide open. Fwiw, the speed limit in Ocracoke is 20. For everyone.

RE: Southern Shores NC12 Speed Limit
By: Tim-OBX 8/6/2022	Posted By: Tim-OBX - (Send PM) Member Since: 6/2/2004 Location: Kitty Hawk Total Posts: 24914 Experience: Date Posted: 8/6/2022 1:14 PM
I rented one today to haul people to the beach access. It is street legal and I have yet to get it up to 20mph. It has a speedometer.

RE: Southern Shores NC12 Speed Limit
By: Tim-OBX 8/6/2022	Posted By: Tim-OBX - (Send PM) Member Since: 6/2/2004 Location: Kitty Hawk Total Posts: 24914 Experience: Date Posted: 8/6/2022 1:24 PM
It looks like it is causing the bridge to backup up, something not that common unless there is a wreck - or barricades.

RE: Southern Shores NC12 Speed Limit
By: Squid Pro Quo 8/6/2022	Posted By: Squid Pro Quo - (Send PM) Member Since: 7/21/2008 Location: Total Posts: 7165 Experience: Date Posted: 8/6/2022 1:57 PM
I rented one today to haul people to the beach access. It is street legal and I have yet to get it up to 20mph. It has a speedometer. Tim-OBX Tim is that what you use to take people to the Duck beach access points?

RE: Southern Shores NC12 Speed Limit
By: johnbt 8/6/2022	Posted By: johnbt - (Send PM) Member Since: 9/5/2019 Location: Richmond VA Total Posts: 430 Experience: Date Posted: 8/6/2022 3:56 PM
"It looks like it is causing the bridge to backup up" Looking at that map, my thought was that they could rename Caratoke Highway the Karaoke Highway => to honor the people sitting in traffic singing the blues.

RE: Southern Shores NC12 Speed Limit
By: Beach Farmer 8/6/2022	Posted By: Beach Farmer - (Send PM) Member Since: 6/1/2019 Location: Carova Beach, NC Total Posts: 2229 Experience: Date Posted: 8/6/2022 4:05 PM
at this point I am fully committed to setting up for travel to and from Knotts Island . Soon enough this will be me. Click to follow link...

RE: Southern Shores NC12 Speed Limit
By: Ali2016 8/6/2022	Posted By: Ali2016 - (Send PM) Member Since: 2/11/2016 Location: SS Total Posts: 455 Experience: Date Posted: 8/6/2022 4:20 PM
It looks like it is causing the bridge to backup up, something not that common unless there is a wreck - or barricades. Tim-OBX The bridge was backed up because there were so many cars trying to get into the left turn lane for the cut thru.

RE: Southern Shores NC12 Speed Limit
By: Greg MD 8/6/2022	Posted By: Greg MD - (Send PM) Member Since: 3/10/2014 Location: Swamp Total Posts: 2959 Experience: Date Posted: 8/6/2022 4:27 PM
at this point I am fully committed to setting up for travel to and from Knotts Island . Soon enough this will be me. Click to follow link... Beach Farmer Lol. Or one of these BF... Click to follow link...

RE: Southern Shores NC12 Speed Limit
By: johnbt 8/6/2022	Posted By: johnbt - (Send PM) Member Since: 9/5/2019 Location: Richmond VA Total Posts: 430 Experience: Date Posted: 8/6/2022 5:19 PM
Would an air boat work for you? A couple of days ago we were putt-putting around Ocracoke with the dog and ended up on the sound side at the end of Esham Lane. There's a private ramp there with a chain across it, but a nice view. That day there was a man backing in a very, very nice black air boat. You know, the kind you see in the Everglades with the engine and huge prop on the back.

RE: Southern Shores NC12 Speed Limit
By: Bentmtn 8/6/2022	Posted By: Bentmtn - (Send PM) Member Since: 9/11/2020 Location: SW VA/Frisco Total Posts: 2089 Experience: Date Posted: 8/6/2022 6:09 PM
Would an air boat work for you? A couple of days ago we were putt-putting around Ocracoke with the dog and ended up on the sound side at the end of Esham Lane. There's a private ramp there with a chain across it, but a nice view. That day there was a man backing in a very, very nice black air boat. You know, the kind you see in the Everglades with the engine and huge prop on the back. johnbt I would love to see something like that as well as riding in one (and owning one)! So neat that you saw one! I would think that you could go anywhere in something like that! Ocracoke always has stuff that you just don't see on the rest of the OBX! It is truly unique.

RE: Southern Shores NC12 Speed Limit
By: Beach Farmer 8/6/2022	Posted By: Beach Farmer - (Send PM) Member Since: 6/1/2019 Location: Carova Beach, NC Total Posts: 2229 Experience: Date Posted: 8/6/2022 6:09 PM
at this point I am fully committed to setting up for travel to and from Knotts Island . Soon enough this will be me. Click to follow link... Beach Farmer Lol. Or one of these BF... Click to follow link... Greg MD Oh, I looked into those then I saw the price tag....

RE: Southern Shores NC12 Speed Limit
By: Beach Farmer 8/6/2022	Posted By: Beach Farmer - (Send PM) Member Since: 6/1/2019 Location: Carova Beach, NC Total Posts: 2229 Experience: Date Posted: 8/6/2022 6:12 PM
Would an air boat work for you? A couple of days ago we were putt-putting around Ocracoke with the dog and ended up on the sound side at the end of Esham Lane. There's a private ramp there with a chain across it, but a nice view. That day there was a man backing in a very, very nice black air boat. You know, the kind you see in the Everglades with the engine and huge prop on the back. johnbt Ya know I just don't know about airboats. They seem awesome but I imagine the attitude and controls take some getting used to. I do like the idea of less boat in the water, especially with all the shallows and marshes around here.

RE: Southern Shores NC12 Speed Limit
By: Greg MD 8/6/2022	Posted By: Greg MD - (Send PM) Member Since: 3/10/2014 Location: Swamp Total Posts: 2959 Experience: Date Posted: 8/6/2022 6:29 PM
Air boats are great to skim over shallows and marshes. But they are very loud and gas hogs unless you are going flat out barely touching the water. They are great over calm water but will beat you to death over waves.

RE: Southern Shores NC12 Speed Limit
By: Bentmtn 8/6/2022	Posted By: Bentmtn - (Send PM) Member Since: 9/11/2020 Location: SW VA/Frisco Total Posts: 2089 Experience: Date Posted: 8/6/2022 7:47 PM
Air boats are great to skim over shallows and marshes. But they are very loud and gas hogs unless you are going flat out barely touching the water. They are great over calm water but will beat you to death over waves. Greg MD Kinda like a Carolina Skiff! I swear one time I had neck injuries going under the bridge at Oregon Inlet in one of those! Give me our catamaran where the waves are cut thru and no beating! Our boat is so smooth in rough waters! Yay to the Kattitude! Our little 20 foot ProKat! Wouldn't have anything else after years of so many boats that we have owned and tried. Hubby drove to Fort Myers FL to pick up the Kattitude and we have been so happy with her.

RE: Southern Shores NC12 Speed Limit
By: Greg MD 8/6/2022	Posted By: Greg MD - (Send PM) Member Since: 3/10/2014 Location: Swamp Total Posts: 2959 Experience: Date Posted: 8/6/2022 8:23 PM
Air boats are great to skim over shallows and marshes. But they are very loud and gas hogs unless you are going flat out barely touching the water. They are great over calm water but will beat you to death over waves. Greg MD Kinda like a Carolina Skiff! I swear one time I had neck injuries going under the bridge at Oregon Inlet in one of those! Give me our catamaran where the waves are cut thru and no beating! Our boat is so smooth in rough waters! Yay to the Kattitude! Our little 20 foot ProKat! Wouldn't have anything else after years of so many boats that we have owned and tried. Hubby drove to Fort Myers FL to pick up the Kattitude and we have been so happy with her. Bentmtn Carolina skiffs are great until it's 3 footers, rhen you need a catamaran until it gets rougher and starts 'sneezing' and then you need a Chesapeake deadrise ro cut through that. No one hull design works across all conditions.

OBX Connection Sponsored Links