Clark County to roll out Neighborhood Traffic Management Program; council adopted plan May 5

Clark County has begun rolling out its Neighborhood Traffic Management Program after the County Council adopted the program on May 5, county transportation staff told neighborhood leaders at the Sept. 8 Clark County Neighborhood Associations meeting.

The program is designed to give neighborhoods a formal annual way to request traffic‑calming measures and related responses, county staff said. “We are kind of starting on stuff right now,” said Susan Boisner, a transportation planner in the county’s community planning group. “We got a soft commitment today that the website will be up by November 1 … and you'll have the application on the website.”

The nut of the program is to identify local residential streets with speeding, cut‑through traffic or crash histories and rank requests for limited county resources. Steve Gallup of the county’s Public Works transportation division said staff expect an annual application window, probably in the first months of the year, that will remain open for about six weeks. After the application window closes, staff will evaluate and rank requests, conduct data collection where necessary, engage with neighborhoods and then select projects for implementation.

County staff said the program’s initial tools include speed‑feedback radar signs, temporary counters (the rubber “tube” counters people sometimes see across a road), signing and striping, optical speed bars and, on lower‑speed local streets, speed humps. Gallup cautioned that some tools—speed humps in particular—are intended only for lower‑volume local streets and are not appropriate on bus routes, collectors or arterials.

The county plans to hire two full‑time employees to run the program. “This first…