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As you know, we have a speeding problem. Perhaps the clearest manifestation came in October, 1998 when an LTD ran down a kitten on Bellevue Ave. The teenagers who witnessed this were so outraged that they posted "25 mph" signs on every tree and 'phone pole on Bellevue Avenue.
As the Northside Magazine caption says, those signs slowed the traffic. Within a couple of days, however, some humorless soul took down the signs, and the traffic returned to its dangerous "normal."
[Note: A Freedom of Information Act request in September 1999 identified that "humorless soul": An email on January 5, 1999 from Robert Anderson of Public Works to Robert Evans, Councilman Johnson's constituent manager, said: "About a month ago someone placed numerous homemade signs in this area. We of course had to remove them." Well, of course they "had to" remove that evidence of their failure.]
The 1998 Neighborhood Survey showed that speeding is a priority concern in our neighborhood. Your Safety Committee has taken on the issue. Here are their minutes from:
The RPD conducted a speed survey in December, 1996.
Our September 1999 Freedom of Information Act request produced the before and after speed data regarding the all-way stops at Bellevue and Fauquier and at Claremont and Fauquier. Mostly we learned that the stop signs work and the City wants to deny it.
We also have the City's proposal for traffic calming the followed the April 19, 2000 meeting. In August the City provided drawings of proposed traffic controls for Bellevue Ave.
There are stoplights at all four corners of Bellevue, and at each end of Bellevue Ave.; there are none within the neighborhood. We have the small commercial district on the south side of the 1200 block of Bellevue Ave., and the larger one in the 4000 block of MacArthur. Otherwise, the neighborhood is residential, with about 1300 homes and 2600 people
We have a pictorial library of traffic hot spots. These include:
We have photos of the new stop signs the City installed at Fauquier & Claremont and at Bellevue & Fauquier. We also have the data that show the salutary effect of those signs and the City's, um, minimization of the data. From the same data we learn that 14% more traffic flows out of the neighborhood on Bellevue Ave. than enters.
We also have an analysis of the traffic calls to the RPD.
YOU can contribute to this project. Just call Chuck Epes and mention the magic word: "Traffic."
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Last updated 02/24/02
Please send questions or comments to John Butcher