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South Pasadena staff outline new Neighborhood Traffic Management Program to formalize responses to street safety requests

South Pasadena Public Works and Infrastructure Commission · January 30, 2026
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Summary

City staff presented a draft Neighborhood Traffic Management Program that would standardize how the city receives resident requests, collects speed and volume data, uses low-cost 'soft' measures first and escalates to physical traffic-calming treatments subject to funding and City Council approval.

Bassam Bithal, South Pasadena’s transportation program manager, told the Public Works and Infrastructure Commission on Jan. 28 that staff will prepare a citywide Neighborhood Traffic Management Program (NTMP) this calendar year to make traffic-safety responses more consistent.

"The neighborhood traffic management program is defined as a citywide comprehensive effort to provide safe, sustainable, and comfortable streets within our neighborhoods for all modes of transportation," Bithal said, describing a process that begins with a resident request,…

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