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Homewood committees set public hearing for Oxmoor traffic-calming after staff recommends permanent speed tables
Summary
Public-safety and public-works committees agreed to advance a traffic-calming plan for Oxmoor Road and to budget for the preliminary survey. Committees favored permanent asphalt speed tables (rather than temporary rubber cushions), set a public hearing for July, and asked staff to contract a survey to scope the work for budgeting and design.
Homewood public-safety and public-works committees on May 19 moved forward on a traffic-calming plan for the north end of Oxmoor Road after staff presented speed and volume data indicating repeat speeding and resident safety concerns.
Staff findings and recommendation City traffic counts supplied to committees showed 85th-percentile speeds between 32 and 36 mph in locations where the speed limit is 25 mph; counts at one location measured average annual daily…
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