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Council hears pause on speed-hump program as departments weigh emergency-response and fleet impacts
Summary
City staff told the Buffalo City Council that the city’s speed-hump program is paused while officials resolve conflicts between traffic-calming goals and emergency-responder and fleet needs; about 20 approved locations remain queued and staff will provide the list to council.
Buffalo City Council members were told the city’s program to install speed-reducing devices is on pause while staff and departments resolve concerns about how the devices affect emergency response and municipal fleet vehicles. Council members were told that roughly 20 locations that completed the application process are on a queue to be installed when the implementation model is finalized.
Council members said the program is intended to slow dangerous driving in neighborhoods, but public-works and fleet staff raised operational problems that they said require time to fix before installing more devices. Staff…
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