Adams Township will purchase eight new radar speed signs in an effort to curb speeding on township roads.

The board of supervisors approved the purchase for $22,786 at a meeting Monday night.

Assistant chief of police Bob Scanlon said the purchase is within the budget, and that the department was able to get a discount of more than $4,000 by purchasing eight signs at once.

“We have found that to be a very effective means of trying to reduce speed,” board of supervisors member Ron Shemela said at the meeting.

The signs are solar-powered, and are moveable, so officers will be able to move them to different parts of the township based on reports of dangerous driving.

“We'll usually utilize them where we are getting complaints from residents about people speeding,” Scanlon said. “They appear to be useful. The complaints in that area stop when we put them up.”

The township already has half a dozen speed sensor signs, but the additional signs will allow the department to spread out their efforts to cut down on speeding, which Scanlon said has been a problem for at least the last 20 years.

“There have always been people driving, and people drive fast, so it's everywhere,” he said.