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Lewisburg delays traffic-calming studies, will collect fall data for Eighth Avenue and other streets
Summary
The Lewisburg mayor and council asked MTAS consultant Brad Peters to conduct targeted traffic counts and hold off on physical traffic-calming installations until fall when school traffic resumes; staff will compile a list of candidate streets for the study.
Lewisburg City leaders agreed to delay structural traffic-calming changes and to ask a Municipal Technical Advisory Service consultant to gather speed and volume data in the fall, when school traffic is in session.
The decision follows a presentation from Brad Peters, a public works and engineering consultant with MTAS, who advised the council to base traffic-calming decisions on measured data rather than perception. “I typically leave them up a week,” Peters said of radar counters, recommending one-week counts timed with school sessions. The mayor and council asked staff to assemble the list of candidate streets — including Eighth Avenue (near Seager), Third Avenue North, Second Avenue at College Street, and the Ashwood/Taylor/Hall corridor — and to have police and staff coordinate timing with Peters.
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