Report Neighborhood Roadway Safety Concern

Description

People drive too fast down the street, even with cars parked on both sides (which limits visibility). Since this is a neighborhood street, not a through street, something should be done to limit drivers to ~15 miles an hour. If people want to drive fast they can get on North Ave.

History

1. April 16, 2023
   The service request is submitted.
2. April 16, 2023
   The service request status has been changed to Assigned to Department.
3. August 1, 2023
   The service request status has been changed to Completed.

Comments

• Staff · April 16, 2023
  Cityworks ID: 498516
• Staff · April 22, 2023
  Afshin, please investigate.
• Staff · August 1, 2023
  A 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 or 15 MPH in 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-15MPH). • 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. * 85th percentile speed is the speed at or below which 85 percent of vehicles travel.