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Resident appeal for speed humps on South Maple advances to further study and enforcement
Summary
Residents appealed a staff traffic-calming analysis to request a speed hump on South Maple Avenue; staff said the data fell short of policy criteria but council asked police enforcement and agreed to revisit traffic counts after nearby subdivision build-out.
Broken Arrow residents asked the City Council on Tuesday to grant a traffic-calming exception and install a speed hump on South Maple Avenue in the Meadows at Indian Springs subdivision.
Zach Smith, assistant director of Streets and Stormwater, explained the city's traffic-calming policy from the 2015 traffic control manual and the numerical thresholds used to recommend speed humps. "Inside that criteria, it specifies that your average daily traffic should be over 500 vehicles a day, and 85% of the vehicle should be traveling over 30 miles per hour in the 25 mile…
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