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NDOT presents five-cushion plan for Stacoa Street; residents ask for fewer, gentler measures
Summary
NDOT engineers presented a draft traffic-calming plan for Stacoa Street proposing five speed cushions; residents described recent crashes and urged fewer cushions, gentler profiles, study of diversion and winter safety. NDOT will revise designs, consider radar feedback and hold a second meeting before a ballot.
City traffic engineers and neighborhood residents discussed a traffic-calming proposal for Stacoa Street during a neighborhood meeting in which NDOT staff presented a preliminary design that includes five speed cushions and solicited local feedback.
Chase, an engineer with Metro working on the traffic-calming program, opened the meeting and laid out the program goals, data collection and selection process. "My name is Chase. I'm an engineer. I'm working with Metro, on the street calming program," he said as he described the program's emphasis on engineering countermeasures to reduce speed. He said Stacoa was one of about 25 streets selected this season from a pool of more than 700 applications.
NDOT presented collected site data and the draft design. Chase summarized the street metrics: an 85th‑percentile speed of about 33 mph on a posted 25 mph street, roughly 1,700 vehicles per day, and a pavement width of about 23 to 26 feet for the project limits between Topokoland and…
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