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Traffic Calming
What is traffic calming?
Traffic calming is the addition of roadway features (bump outs, speed humps, chicanes, lane striping, etc) to reduce vehicle speeds or the amount of vehicles on a particular road or a particular area. The goals of traffic calming are to improve the quality of life within a residential or commercial area, increase the safety of pedestrians and bicyclists, and reduce automobile speeds.
What is the traffic calming process?
1. Contact DPW about traffic concerns on your street via SeeClickFix or email.
2. DPW will collect traffic data if needed (April - October). DPW will review crash history and traffic data to assess speed conditions and identify the percent of heavy truck traffic.
3. If data exceeds the thresholds from the Traffic Calming Manual (available below), DPW will determine your street's place in the queue and develop a traffic calming improvement plan based on the context of your streets. The improvement plan will be shared with the neighborhood but will not require a neighborhood vote.
4. If data does not meet the thresholds for traffic calming, resources will be provided for neighborhood enhancements to pursue separately.
How will streets be prioritized?
Traffic calming will prioritize safety first based on:
#1: streets with 85th percentile speeds exceeding the speed limit or slow zone target speed by more than 5 mph; or with a fatal crash or crash involving a person walking or biking within the last 5 years.
#2: construction activity that should be coordinated with other projects.
#3: streets with no traffic calming.
#4: streets with traffic calming.
#5: streets that have had traffic calming installed within the last 5 years.
Current Traffic Calming Projects
East Avenue
Current Status: design underway
Ward 1 NPA Meeting Update - December 14, 2022
View the presentation slides (includes concept plans and block-by-block parking impacts)
Zoom in and out to view the updated conceptual plan set, and see an example of a median / chicane here
September 23, 2022 Pilot Project
East Ave August 23, 2022 In Person / Virtual Meeting
View the presentation slides or presentation recording
East Ave February 15, 2022 Virtual Meeting
View the presentation slides or presentation recording on YouTube
Scarff Ave
Current Status: design complete, construction after 2023 paving of Shelburne Street,
View slides from the January 18, 2022 neighborhood meeting
Birchcliff Parkway
Current Status: design complete, construction currently ongoing
Recently Completed Traffic Calming Projects
Rose Street
Current Status: design completed, installation completed in Summer 2023
March 29, 2023 In-Person/Virtual Meeting
O.N.E. Community Center at 6 pm, and online via Zoom
Join Zoom Meeting:
Meeting ID: 984 9324 4985
Passcode: 495227
View the slides presented during the meeting.
Review the meeting notes.
Chase Street
Current Status: design complete. Traffic calming measure to go into effect Fall 2023
Bright Street
Current Status: design completes, construction completed in Spring 2022
Interested in traffic calming on your street?
Contact DPW via See Click Fix or Customer Service at 863-9094 or email