Low speed design criteria for residential streets.

Author(s)
Ballard, A.J. & Haldeman, D.M.
Year
Abstract

The City of San Antonio receives many complaints regarding speeding in residential areas. Citizens perceive speeding on residential streets as a safety issue and as a quality of life issue. As a result, there has been significant demand to retrofit traffic calming features on existing residential streets. Although the City's Speed Hump Program has effectively addressed speeding on many existing residential streets, new neighborhoods continue to be developed in a way that subsequent installation of traffic calming devices is requested. Residential streets in San Antonio and its extraterritorial jurisdiction historically have not been designed to dissuade speeding. According to State law and City ordinance, the prima facie speed limit on residential streets is 30 mph. In an effort to reduce the need to retrofit new streets with traffic calming features, the City of San Antonio initiated a study to determine street characteristics that discourage speeding. The goal was to establish and codify street geometric criteria for the development of streets in new neighborhoods that would produce operating speeds that do not exceed the 30 mph speed limit.

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C 28623 (In: C 28616 CD-ROM) /72 / ITRD E820879
Source

In: Today's transportation challenge : meeting our customer's expectations : compendium of technical papers presented at the 2002 ITE Spring Conference and Exhibit, Palm Harbor, Florida, March 24-27, 2002, 5 p.

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