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Cathedral City presents new traffic-calming policy after five pilot studies
Summary
City staff presented a two-part traffic-calming policy that sets investigation thresholds and a six-step temporary-measures process; staff recommended low-cost, immediate actions while permanent neighborhood plans will require petitions, interagency review and funding.
City Engineer Armando Baldizzone presented an updated traffic-calming policy and guidelines to the Cathedral City City Council at a Jan. 8 study session, outlining a two-part process of data-driven investigation followed by implementation of temporary or permanent traffic-calming measures.
The policy sets objective thresholds for initiating an investigation: the 85th-percentile speed must be greater than 35 miles per hour or at least 70 percent of measured speeds must exceed 25 miles per hour. Baldizzone described a six-step investigation that begins with identifying a street for study and proceeds through covert speed radar collection, temporary speed-feedback signs, enforcement, temporary ramps and, if warranted, a funding memorandum recommending permanent measures.
Baldizzone said staff conducted pilot investigations at five locations beginning in July 2024 — two segments on Whispering Palms Trail, Bega Road, Avenida Cimino and Avenida del Guillermo — and that none of the five advanced past the step that installs…
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