Residents press Estacada council for traffic calming in Campanella Estates after cut-through traffic rises

Campanella Estates residents urged the Estacada City Council on multiple fronts to act after new subdivision connections have turned neighborhood streets into a cut-through route used day and night.

At a July council meeting, residents said traffic volumes are higher than before the new through‑street opened and that existing speed humps are not slowing drivers. They asked the council to install additional or taller speed humps, add stop signs at key intersections, deploy radar speed signs or cameras and increase enforcement.

The residents’ plea: why the neighborhood is now a bypass

Tracy Hayes, a Campanella Estates resident, told council that since a road connection was opened, “traffic is increasing significantly at all hours,” and drivers routinely exceed the 25 mph limit. Hayes said the speed humps installed after a petition were “not proven effective” and asked for taller or more numerous humps, a four‑way stop at Hill and Broadway and a stop at Hill and Forest Park. She asked the city to reinstall the traffic counter and to consider camera enforcement and more radar patrols.

Other residents echoed those concerns. Britney Hill said she lives near Raymond and worries “deeply for [her] three young children” because the street “no longer feels like a residential…