DPW000133692
Traffic and Street Signs
Public Works
- Requested
- February 9, 2023
- Subtype
- Request New Traffic Sign
- Location
- N 19th St & E Broad St
- As reported by the submitter and published by the City. May be the submitter’s address or another party’s; the City does not anonymize to block level.
- Council District
- 7
- Neighborhood
- Church Hill
Description
We request new speed limits and signs between E. Broad St. and E. Cary St. to reduce the speed limit to 20 miles per hour.
Details
- What kind of sign is it?
- Speed Limit
History
- February 9, 2023The service request is submitted.
- February 9, 2023The service request status has been changed to Assigned to Department.
- August 2, 2023The service request status has been changed to Completed.
Comments
- Staff · February 9, 2023Cityworks ID: 494147
- Staff · August 2, 2023A comprehensive speed management approach to addressing speeding on residential streets should use education / outreach, enforcement, and engineering strategies. The Department is not planning to reduce the statutory 25MPH speed limit to 20MPH in the this Neighborhood. National studies show a negligible reduction of speeds, (i.e., less than one mph with slight increases in certain locations, when lowering the speed limit from 25MPH to 20MPH). • Per our speed symposium held in April 2023, speed limit signs alone are not effective. • In Portland Oregon, the median speed (22 MPH) and 85th percentile (27 MPH) were unchanged, following the speed limit reduction from 25MPH to 20MPH. Researchers suggest that “given the speed limit was only changed 5 MPH and was lowered from a low speed already (25 MPH), any changes in these typical speed measures would be expected to be small.” • Most cities that have lowered speed limits in their downtown or built up areas within their jurisdictions are usually from 35MPH or 30MPH to 25MPH; something that the City of Richmond has had for decades.