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Council directs staff to prepare ordinance lowering speed limits on Post Oak Trail and Silver Spur Trail
Summary
After reviewing crash and citation data, the council directed staff to prepare an ordinance reducing the speed limit on Post Oak Trail and Silver Spur Trail to 30 mph for consistency with neighboring streets; council declined to send the matter to the Transportation Safety Advisory Committee and instead asked staff to prepare the ordinance for a
Council members on Nov. 6 discussed speed limits on Post Oak Trail and Silver Spur Trail and directed staff to prepare an ordinance reducing both streets to 30 miles per hour.
Assistant City Manager Carol Vanzant summarized the history and data: both streets were previously set to 35 mph by council action in 1989 and again affirmed in 2009 after a citywide review. Vanzant said the city—s traffic report showed five citations or warnings on Silver Spur in the last year and 51 on Post Oak; TxDOT crash records show seven reported accidents on Silver Spur and one on Post Oak over a longer period. Staff presented classification of the roads in the comprehensive plan—s transportation map (Silver Spur as a connector and Post Oak as local rural residential), and offered options including keeping the status quo, sending the item to the Transportation Safety Advisory Committee (TSAC) for review, performing targeted traffic studies, or directing staff to prepare an ordinance.
Council member Reuben Alvero said Post Oak stood out on the city map once Rolling Acres had been changed and argued for consistency with the surrounding neighborhood speed limits. Other council members said they preferred a simple, citywide-consistent rule rather than additional studies and directed staff to draft an ordinance to lower the two streets to 30 mph. Several council members said they did not want the item to remain in committee and asked staff to prepare an ordinance instead.
No formal ordinance was adopted at the meeting; staff was directed to prepare draft language and return with an ordinance for council consideration.
Quotes
"Once we change Rolling Acres, and Post Oak really stood out to me as just being completely consistent with the rest of the city," Council member Reuben Alvero said. "I thought it warranted further discussion."
