"They really lay on the gas coming through here," said a resident who lives along Eighth Street in Troy.

Charlena Keels stands outside her home on Eighth Street in Troy.

I traveled to Eighth Street in Troy several weeks ago to speak with Charleena Keels so I could write about how she'd been attacked by teens who beat her and stole her car.

It was a nice day, so Keels and I talked outside by her front stoop. But every few minutes or so, our conversation was interrupted by cars zooming up the one-way street. Wow, I said, the speeding here is unbelievable.

"Isn't it terrible?" Keels said. "It's always like this."

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As she reminded me, I'd been to the block between Rensselaer and Hoosick streets before to write about its problems with dangerous drivers. That was in 2019 after a 16-year-old from the neighborhood was hit and carried up the road for about 50 feet before the driver finally stopped.

Police said the teenage girl, who was seriously injured but survived the crash, was partially at fault because she was in the roadway. The driver was ticketed for speeding.

That's it. Just speeding. Nothing else.

That angered some of the girl's neighbors, who told me they had complained about dangerous conditions for years and nothing had been done. Why........

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