Are you tired of people speeding through your neighborhood near where the kids are playing? Are you frustrated by the fact that drivers on your street completely ignore your personal “Slow Down!” sign in your front yard?
Well, a brand-new initiative from the City of Greensboro might be just what the doctor ordered.
On Monday, June 24, the Greensboro Department of Transportation launched a program that’s meant to help make neighborhoods safer.
City officials describe the “Neighborhood Traffic Management Program” as follows: [The program] partners residents, neighborhood associations and homeowner’s associations with Greensboro Department of Transportation engineers to create tailored plans to reduce motor vehicle speeding and make residential streets safer for all users.”
And the city is taking requests. You can apply to have your neighborhood or street checked out for any safety concerns. The deadline for applications is Saturday, Aug. 31.
Residents, neighborhood associations and homeowner’s associations that would like to apply to have their residential streets considered for “traffic calming efforts” may apply online at www.GSONTMP.org.
The applications will be judged on a needs-based analysis that takes into account things like speeding, number of cars passing through, and traffic accidents that have occurred in the area in the last three years. City traffic engineers will also study pedestrian and bicycling needs as well as proximity to elementary and middle schools.
For those accepted for the program, city traffic engineers will work with residents to develop a plan that fits that neighborhood’s specific needs.
The highest-need areas will be addressed first by the city’s Department of Transportation.
If you want to learn more about the new initiative, you can attend Traffic Management Plan Overview and Application Workshops on either July 8, July 23 or August 31.
The city will also help you with the application process during open office hours in August. (Those hours are 2 p.m.-4 p.m., Tuesdays, August 6 – 27 at the Development Services Conference Room on the UG Level of the Melvin Municipal Office Building at 300 W. Washington St. in downtown Greensboro. During those hours they can also accommodate Zoom drop-in calls.)
You can visit www.GSONTMP.org to get more information and apply online. Greensboro Department of Transportation Director Hanna Cockburn is encouraging those who feel that their streets and neighborhoods are unsafe to apply.
“Throughout the city, diverse neighborhoods come to GDOT with similar traffic concerns and speeding issues that make their residential streets feel unsafe,” Cockburn said this week. “With the Neighborhood Traffic Management Program, we’ll tackle this problem together. I encourage residents to collaborate with their neighbors to develop their application, as community involvement will be a critical piece of this program.”
Some traffic calming measures may include the installation of mini-roundabouts, elevated crosswalks and, of course, the ever-popular speed humps.
This program is meant for two-lane roads lined with residential properties and a speed limit of between 25 to 30 miles per hour.
City officials note that it isn’t for larger, higher-traffic roadways.
Also, all recommended changes will be reviewed to make sure they don’t interfere with the ability of police, fire or emergency medical services to reach a neighborhood quickly in case of an emergency.
The Traffic Management Program Workshops will take place….
- 2 p.m., July 8, via Zoom. This meeting will be recorded and shared online on the web page for those who can’t take part at that time.
- 4 p.m. July 23, Barber Park Event Center at 1502 Barber Park Dr. in Greensboro.
- 10 a.m. August 31, Central Library in the Nussbaum Room at 219 N. Church St. in Greensboro.
There are also Zoom options for taking part in the July 23 and August 31 meeting if you can’t make it in person.
Lol….the roads are in such pitiful shape, only a fool would speed in my neighborhood. How about some new paving? At least my high tax dollars could be seen.
“Speeding” only means that you’re exceeding the speed restrictions that bureaucrats are trying to impose on you.
They do this for many reasons. In local jurisdictions it’s generally because a bunch of soccer moms have become incensed that people drive along at more than 35mph. So they lobby aggressively to cut the limit – and are promptly hoisted by their own petard as they rush to soccer practice, or ballet. What beautiful justice.
On the national level it’s the Leftists who hate cars, and want to harass us as we use them to facilitate our personal freedom. They’re just little wankers.
Confession: I am a chronic “speeder”. I drive swiftly and attentively. I do not play with a phone, pick my nose, or grope around for fries while I drive.
And I routinely exceed government speed restrictions by a lot.
I drive about 30,000 – 35,000 miles a year. I have never been in an accident since I came to the US 40 years ago to attend UNC-G.
So… they say that “speeding” is intrinsically dangerous, don’t they?
If that were true I would have been invloved in many accidents.
They lie. Their “Speed Limits” are absurdly low and prohibitive.
Drive as you wish, swiftly and safely, disregard their rules, and look out for the idiots who don’t know how to drive.
This program is meant for two-lane roads lined with residential properties and a speed limit of between 25 to 30 miles per hour.
Do we know how many two lane roads have these speed limits vs 35 mph? Why so arbitrary?
Adams Farm Parkway is 35 mph with busy sidewalks on both sides yet drivers think that since it’s a fairly clear visible road they can average above 50 mph. I’m certain there are more 35 mph roads than 25-50 mph, yet the squeaky wheel gets first pick.
I smell a tax increase justification.
You are way ahead on this one.
Gee, I dunno.
How about police presence and enforcement?