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Complete Streets Commission endorses Slow Streets program, urges staff to factor connectivity and nonlinear speed risk into scoring
Summary
The Commission voted unanimously to recommend a new Slow Streets program that removes the petition requirement and prioritizes projects via a point system based on speed, collisions and proximity to activity centers; commissioners urged staff to give added weight to network connectivity and to consider nonlinear weighting for higher speed differentials.
Menlo Park staff proposed a Slow Streets program to replace the older Neighborhood Traffic Management Program. Senior Transportation Planner Katrine Mackey said the new design removes the petition requirement, evaluates requests in batches, and ranks projects using a point system that emphasizes observed speeds (85th percentile), recent injury collisions (three‑year window), average daily traffic thresholds and adjacency to schools, parks and Community Activity Centers. Mackey said speed is central because of its nonlinear relationship to…
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