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Lakewood council agrees to one-year pause on neighborhood speed-hump installs to shift focus to collectors
Summary
Council gave staff consensus to pause the city's neighborhood speed-hump program for one year and redirect staff time and funds to speed cushions and other traffic-calming measures on minor collectors and targeted collectors; staff will report back in six months.
Lakewood City staff asked the council on Dec. 1 to pause the city's neighborhood speed-hump installation program for one year and redirect program funding and staff capacity toward traffic-calming measures on collectors and arterials where most serious crashes occur.
“Staff's recommendation is to put a pause just like Boulder and just have us work on collectors and arterials where we're seeing that 96 percent of the injury and fatals are happening,” Mike Whitaker, Lakewood's transportation engineer,…
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