DPW000178875
Report Neighborhood Roadway Safety Concern
Public Works
- Requested
- July 18, 2024
- Subtype
- New Speed Control
- Location
- 307 W Roanoke St, 23225
- 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
- 5
- Neighborhood
- Reedy Creek
Description
Drivers speed/ cross double line/ tail gate/ crash into poles. Please do something!! When this has been requested before you respond that emergency vehicles cannot tolerate a speed bump. But they can! Put a median or concrete lane dividers or cops or stop sign at Dunston or Crutchfield or ?? Anything? No thru truck signs too?
History
- July 18, 2024The service request is submitted.
- July 18, 2024The service request status has been changed to Assigned to Department.
- July 29, 2024The service request status has been changed to Completed.
Comments
- Staff · July 18, 2024Cityworks ID: 534361
- Staff · July 29, 2024The Fire Marshall will not approve speed tables on Roanoke St between Semmes Ave and Midlothian Turnpike given the daily traffic of 9,000 vehicles a day and the functional classification of Urban Other Principal Arterial. The Department of Public Works must perform engineering studies in accordance with the Federal Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) before installing an all-way stop. Neither the intersection of Roanoke St and Duston Ave or Roanoke Ave and Crutchfield St meet the traffic MUTCD traffic requirements for an all-way stop. Roanoke Ave is US 60 and a critical corridor for truck traffic so there are no plans to restrict trucks between Forest Hill Ave and Midlothian Turnpike. Median or concrete dividers are capital improvements and not in the adopted Capital Improvement Budget. Roanoke has measures to influence speeders including $200 enhanced speed fines as approved by a City Council Resolution and the pavement has been narrowed in each direction for a marked bike lane.