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 year, we're gonna be kinda going a little slow,” Gallup said, adding that the two hires will allow staff to be more responsive and to move projects into design and construction in future years. Staff told attendees they expect the program to begin more fully in 2026.

Neighborhood leaders pressed staff on jurisdictional limits and coordination. Residents asked how the program would treat state or city roads such as Patton Parkway and raised concerns about traffic at specific local corridors including 90 Fourth and 80 Sixth. Gallup said the program is primarily intended for county roads and local residential streets but that the county will evaluate collector and arterial requests and use other tools—signing, signal timing coordination and signal timing changes—where traffic volumes or speeds make some physical calming measures infeasible. Staff said they will coordinate with emergency service providers and C‑Tran to avoid measures that would impede response times or transit service.

Data collection and eligibility criteria will include road classification, traffic volumes, presence of sidewalks or bike lanes, proximity to parks or schools, speeds and crash history. Gallup said the county receives roughly 400 traffic requests a year through existing channels and that the new program is intended to organize those requests and prioritize projects.

Staff emphasized that some items raised by neighborhoods—state highway enforcement, signal timing on Patton Parkway or larger signal projects tied to the city—are outside the county’s sole control and will require coordination. For state roads, Gallup advised residents to note the jurisdiction on their application because road ownership determines which agency must approve changes.

Discussion points - County Council adopted the Neighborhood Traffic Management Program on May 5; staff described the program’s process, tools and timeline. (Discussion) - Neighborhoods raised specific concerns about speeding, truck noise and the impacts of new nearby developments and the city’s operations center on local intersections such as 90 Fourth and 80 Sixth. (Discussion) - Residents sought clarity on whether state roads and city signals would be considered; staff said those are out‑of‑county jurisdictional issues and will require coordination. (Discussion)

Directions / staff next steps - County staff will post the NTMP application and informational materials to a public web page; staff said they expect the site and application to be live by Nov. 1. (Direction) - The county intends to hire two full‑time employees to run the program, with program ramp‑up through early 2026. (Direction) - Staff will collect data (speed and traffic counts, crash history) as part of the evaluation and ranking process. (Direction)

Decisions - County Council adopted the NTMP on May 5; the meeting did not record any new vote on the program. (Decision: adoption referenced)

Quotes (selected) - “We are kind of starting on stuff right now,” Susan Boisner, transportation planner, said when describing the program rollout. - “This first year, we're gonna be kinda going a little slow … but the first thing we're gonna do is we're gonna go out and try to hire two new employees,” said Steve Gallup, Public Works transportation division.

Clarifying details - Application window: staff indicated requests will be collected once a year; the intake period is expected to be about six weeks in the first months of the year. (statement from staff) - Staffing: the program will add two full‑time positions to run NTMP beginning in the new year. (staff statement) - Website: staff said they have a soft commitment that the public application page will be live by Nov. 1. (staff statement) - Current request volume: transportation staff receive about 400 traffic requests annually through existing channels. (staff statement) - Tools available: speed‑feedback radar signs (collect speeds and counts), speed humps (for low‑speed, low‑volume local streets only), optical speed bars, signing and striping, speed studies and traffic counts. (staff statement)

Proper names mentioned (selection) - Clark County (agency) - Steve Gallup (person, Public Works transportation) - Susan Boisner (person, community planning — transportation planner) - C‑Tran (transit agency) - Patton Parkway (state road)

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