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Urbana Public Works outlines new traffic-request workflow, prioritization and traffic-calming options
Summary
Public Works presented a new intake workflow using OpenGov EAM to track traffic requests, explained engineering review and criteria (including MUTCD guidance) and discussed traffic-calming tools—noting staffing limits, a backlog of ~2,000 requests and plans to add speed-feedback signs near schools.
Public Works described a redesigned intake and tracking workflow for traffic concerns and requests, emphasizing a centralized work-order system (OpenGov EAM), an engineering review step and a clear path to traffic-commission review and council action when ordinances are required.
Staff said incoming requests are routed into the EAM work-order management system, screened for immediate threats to public safety, and then subjected to an engineering review that considers crash reports, sight-distance, MUTCD warrants and local ordinances. "If we go to the manual and it says that this sign is not warranted in this type of location, then we would know we can't do this, and it's an immediate…
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