@elbows 132963 wrote:
Some residents in my neighborhood (and the civic association) are concerned about the volume of drivers exceeding the speed limit on residential streets but are not sure who at the County is the correct contact. We would like a traffic study and a discussion of possible remediations. Apparently the program for traffic calming has been dissolved? This could be handled under NCAC but maybe not? Complete Streets is not yet chartered? There is currently no one to conduct a neighborhood walk-through or conduct a traffic study, I’m told. I suggested ACPD but my neighborhood colleagues were not sure that was the right approach.
We’re basically in limbo – Neighborhood Traffic Calming was killed; its successor Neighborhood Complete Streets is not yet up and running. Barring a glaring safety problem, the County has no program within which to deal with safety issues on Neighborhood Streets, only arterials. You could do it through Neighborhood Conservation (NCAC) but that would take literally years.
We could really use some people speaking up for Neighborhood Complete Streets – it is encountering some resistance from those who hated the Traffic Calming program and they’re trying to kill it before it ever gets off the ground. countyboard@arlingtonva.us
In the meantime, getting on the list at ACPD for speed enforcement is pretty easy – just have two or three folks call ACPD and complain about speeding on that stretch.
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