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Committee weighs traffic-calming options, speed studies for East Street
Summary
Residents asked for stop signs to address perceived speeding on East Street. Staff outlined technical scope and costs for a traffic/stop-sign study and the committee agreed to revisit after two months.
A series of resident complaints about speeding on East Street prompted the committee to discuss traffic-calming measures and the scope and cost of a proper engineering study.
Committee members cautioned that installing a stop sign is not always the appropriate remedy for perceived speeding and noted that a technical study requires several steps: a five-year crash-history review, turn-movement counts, speed data collection, site visits and additional analysis. Staff said such intersection studies typically carry costs in the thousands; during discussion a figure of about $9,000 was mentioned for certain study work at other locations.
The committee debated alternatives to stop signs, including parking changes, lane re-striping, bike lanes, narrowing, or future reconstruction that could include curb and alignment changes. Staff said a full redesign or curb reconstruction would be more expensive and not likely affordable in the near term; in some recently reconstructed stretches, milling and paving may be the more appropriate short-term action.
Committee members agreed to put the East Street request on hold for two months, revisit priorities and available funding, and consider whether a higher-level pedestrian-safety or complete-streets plan should guide future intersection-level engineering studies. No formal vote or funding allocation was made.
