Speed monitoring is to be carried out at a heavily-debated road in Yeovil.
Residents of Milford Road have been campaigning for speed-calming measures for some time without success. A petition with more than 160 signatures was handed over to the town council last year.
Overall, town councillors sided with residents but the authority responsible for such matters, the county council, has proved a much harder nut to crack.
A highway service manager, for example, has said that excessive speed is not a major reason for accidents on the busy road.
County representatives attended a fairly stormy town council debate in November when it was proposed that the chief technical officer, David Monk, should investigate the costs for a speed cutting trial at Milford Road.
Mr Monk explained that he had no brief from the county council or anybody else to undertake such a job, which would cost a lot of money.
Following a heated debate, it was eventually decided to seek urgent permission from the county council to go ahead with a trial on Milford Road.
Since then, highway service manager Geoff Dight has presented statistics suggesting speed is not a major reason for reported accidents on the road.
"There are no current proposals for a traffic calming scheme, but the town council are very anxious for action to be taken and will be requesting the county council to make funding available so that preliminary investigations and design work can be carried out," he said last year.
At the time there was no time given as to when investigations would be carried out, but police recently revealed that speed monitoring looks likely to commence in the near future.
Inspector Trevor Ashford wrote to MP David Laws earlier this month: "We have liaised with Colin Fletcher from County Highways (WS Atkins) and he will be arranging speed monitoring in Milford Road. I will update you with the result of the speed detection in due course."