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Mobility committee weighs traffic calming, staff to return with implementable recommendations
Summary
City staff presented traffic-calming principles and evidence showing lower speeds reduce crash severity; committee members asked staff to pursue policy changes, design standards updates and include economic-development effects in prioritization.
Greg Scott, City of Denton Transportation Services Division bike, ped and ADA coordinator, told the Mobility Committee that traffic-calming — which he defined broadly to include speed management and design that intentionally engages drivers — reduces speeds and the severity of crashes and works best as a coordinated package of treatments.
Scott said the city has moved toward prioritizing human life over travel speed and comfort and that calming “uses design to communicate proper behavior.” He warned the conventional approach of widening and prioritizing vehicle speed sends the wrong message and is linked to higher pedestrian risk: “you can't prioritize both speed and safety,” he said.
The presentation summarized evidence the committee was given,…
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