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Livermore staff outline speed cushions, petition rules for Bluebell Drive outreach meeting
Summary
City staff presented a preliminary design of rubber speed cushions, three raised crosswalks and a petition process for Bluebell Drive and nearby streets; residents raised safety concerns, questioned the number of cushions and asked for stronger enforcement and design flexibility.
Christina Mai, the City of Livermore’s project manager for the neighborhood traffic calming program, described the preliminary plan for Bluebell Drive, Heather Lane and Lilac Avenue and asked residents to help collect signatures for two neighborhood petitions necessary to install speed cushions and other devices.
Mai said the city’s traffic‑calming program — approved by the city council in 2002, paused in 2009 and reinitiated in 2020 — uses a two‑tier approach: Tier 1 (education, enforcement and engineering) includes speed counts and targeted enforcement; if those measures do not reduce speeds sufficiently, the project moves to Tier 2, the neighborhood traffic‑calming program. She told participants a prior lane‑narrowing and bike buffers reduced peak measured speeds from about 40 mph to about 35 mph, but staff advanced the corridor to Tier 2 because speeds remain above the 25 mph limit.
The preliminary design replaces earlier traffic‑circle proposals that the…
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