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Salinas staff proposes speed-focused changes to traffic-calming prioritization
Summary
At the July 10 Traffic and Transportation Commission meeting staff presented proposed updates to how neighborhood traffic-calming petitions are scored, including removing caps on speed and crash scores, switching to seven-day speed/volume collection and adding credit for streets identified in recent planning documents.
At the July 10 meeting of the Salinas Traffic and Transportation Commission, staff presented proposed updates to the city's traffic-calming prioritization criteria and asked commissioners for feedback. The presentation covered changes to data collection, scoring and thresholds used to decide which neighborhood streets move forward for traffic-calming measures.
The changes staff highlighted would: remove the maximum cap on the score awarded for measured speeds and for crash history so very high-speed and high-crash streets can receive additional priority; change vehicle counts and speed measurements from a three-day weekday sample to a seven-day sample; reduce the geometrics/engineering-judgment category from a 20-point maximum to 15 points while adding a new 5-point credit for streets that appear in the…
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