Councilmember Darryl Moore
Dear Neighbors:
As I meet with constituents and neighbors throughout District 2, one of the utmost concerns of residents is the problem of speeding automobiles and traffic congestion in residential neighborhoods.
Residents that live near the intersection of Addison and Acton have raised serious concern about the need for traffic calming at this intersection and along Addison Street between Acton and Bonar due to the volume of high speed vehicles and bike traffic along that particular stretch of Addison. In the FY 2007 City budget, the City Council allocated $200,000 for traffic calming projects throughout the City. While this will not solve all of the City's traffic calming needs, it is a start in the right direction and will help in funding specific and targeted traffic calming measures.
If there is general neighborhood agreement on the need for traffic calming here, the Transportation Department would initiate a speed/volume survey. This would enable the department to develop specific traffic calming recommendations.
With the advent of Kitchen Democracy, neighbors and concerned citizens have another channel for expressing their opinion on the need for traffic calming along this part of Addison. Please take the time out to tell us what you think.
Thank you,
Darryl Moore
Councilmember District 2
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Is there a need for additional traffic calming measures on Addison near Acton?
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Yes, do let's curb some, at least, of the traffic excitement around here. Addison Street has two elementary schools plus a residence for 150 ancients. All three elements call urgently for low traffic speeds. We instead get racers by the dozen. There is a police station at the end of Addison. Any day of the week, an officer with a radar gun standing at my mailbox could easily nail five speeders per hour through a whole busy, citation - awarding afternoon. Instead police cars also speed between the school children and the old hobblers. The present signatory once proposed a sign for my home indicating that slow-moving slow-reacting citizens were afoot in this area. No sign, because, "A sign would confuse drivers." (Verbatim). I offered to paint "Slow" on the street, but was told not to. At one end of this street, montessori school teachers guide groups of twenty or so children back and forth across the street to the park -ever so nervously. |
The area near the intersection of Addison and Acton is already terminated on two ends by stop signs and on another by a traffic light. That, in conjunction with the narrowness of the streets and parked cars, already throttles down speed and traffic. Additionally, the Addison corridor provides access to Strawberry Creek Lodge for fire and rescue vehicles, and it's regularly used by police patrol cars returning to home base. We don't need more obstacles to legitimate neighborhood and city vehicle traffic. Barbara Vanden Borre |
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