Narberth committee advances draft traffic‑calming policy to collect more data, set eligibility rules

The Public Health & Safety Committee on June 13 reviewed a draft traffic‑calming policy intended to make evaluations more strategic and visible to residents.

Committee members said the policy would standardize how the borough receives and evaluates requests and avoid repeating the same conversations every few years. “This will help, kind of remove some of those inefficiencies,” a staff member presenting the draft said.

The policy as circulated sets three eligibility criteria: (1) the street must be a local road or minor collector on a residential or mixed‑use street; (2) no traffic data collection has been conducted at the same location within the past 24 months unless the…