Some central Omaha residents are fed up with speeding in their neighborhood. Underwood Avenue runs on the north side of Memorial Park and that's where neighbors say speeding is a major problem.

Dr. Bruce Horacek has lived in the neighborhood for nearly 30 years and he says he has nearly been hit trying to cross the street on at least five occasions.

In one of those cases he says a woman ran a red light, "and when she went through the light and I yelled at her she slowed down and she smiled at me. I don't know where she's coming from on that. She almost killed me."

But speed is what really concerns Dr. Horacek.

He says, "I would say several times a day I see people coming by here in no traffic going 50 to possibly even 60 miles-an-hour."

The speed limit is 30.

We clocked a number of speeders Friday with the Channel 6 Speed Zapper. In the course of just 15 minutes we found some going more than 40 and one reaching 51 miles-per-hour.

Omaha Public Works has studied the traffic along Underwood and agrees that there is a speeding problem. One solution they are considering is a roundabout like the one at Country Club and Happy Hollow.

Traffic engineer Todd Pfitzer says, "Roundabouts are designed with a 20 mile-an-hour design speed. So when traffic goes into and comes out of a roundabout they have to be going about 20 miles-per-hour. We are getting some speed down through that area because it's so straight. And you can see a long ways. And people do drive too fast."

In the meantime, Dr. Horacek says the speeders are getting away with breaking the limit.

"You see very, very little police presence in terms of traffic," he says.

Omaha Public Works says speed bumps are not an option on that stretch of Underwood because it is a feeder street. They say speed bumps could send more traffic onto side streets.