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TSAC adopts staff checklist for speed‑change requests; form to be used for February submittals
Summary
The Transportation Safety Advisory Committee voted to require city staff to complete a new checklist when handling citizen submittals on speed‑limit or traffic‑control changes. The checklist incorporates engineering data, enforcement data and neighborhood information; staff will finalize edits and begin using the form with February submittals.
The Transportation Safety Advisory Committee voted on Nov. 5 to adopt a staff checklist that will be completed whenever a citizen requests a traffic‑control or speed‑limit change.
The checklist combines traditional engineering measures — including the 85th‑percentile speed — with other items city staff and TSAC members agreed should be considered, such as police enforcement data, street classification, radar collection data, road geometry (including whether a street has curbs), and citizen input. Carol, a city transportation staff member, told the committee, "This checklist will be part of the submittal form because there are items in here that we are asking the submitter to provide. So that is correct." The committee instructed staff to finalize wording and…
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