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June 15, 2015 at 11:20 pm #817705
Chris FMemberWhat is the process for requesting speed bumps along this very busy, and sometimes dangerous, street because of the speeding cars. Any input would be appreciated.
June 15, 2015 at 11:33 pm #825001June 16, 2015 at 2:26 am #825002
KatieHParticipantIt’s getting worse by the day. How about if we each post when we’ve e-mailed a request for traffic calming devices?
June 16, 2015 at 2:45 am #825003
Chris FMemberGreat idea – hope it makes a difference this summer.
June 16, 2015 at 3:05 am #825004
clulessinwsParticipantGood luck. I can think of some other areas that need them. I’ve tried and never heard back from the city. If it works for you, please share how you did it.
June 16, 2015 at 5:03 am #825005
KatieHParticipantThanks for the link, Tracy.
The address to write is Neighborhood.Traffic@seattle.gov
The phone number to call is: 206-684-8722
I wrote:
“I am writing to request urgent action on Beach Drive SW, across from Constellation Park. The drag racing is worsening by the day. This is a highly used pedestrian route, with the prospect for death or significant injury.
Please install speed bumps as soon as possible.”
No need for originality for this purpose. Feel free to use my text. The important thing is to write and call early and often!
June 16, 2015 at 2:17 pm #825006
anonymeParticipantSome time ago I consulted with a rep from SDOT about speed bumps on 35th south of Rox. Beach Drive came up in the conversation, and I’m pretty sure I was told that they’d been installed at one point – and then removed. Apparently they make a lot of noise, so that’s something to consider. I’m not making a judgement either way, just reporting what I was told.
June 16, 2015 at 3:00 pm #825007
WSBKeymasterThere are “speed humps” (the technical term) on Beach Drive for a few blocks south of Jacobsen Road, a notorious straightaway. One more suggestion for the OP: Check with the Alki Community Council to see if this has been proposed/ evaluated before. It’s a small all-volunteer group and its official “jurisdiction” includes Beach Drive. Contact information should be at http://alkinews.com. I checked our archives (which now run back 7 1/2 years of community-news coverage) and didn’t come up with anything.
Also important: I’m sure you call police when you see/hear racing. Please continue to. Whether you get an officer responding or not, you are building an official record of the problem when you call, and that becomes really important for a variety of reasons down the line.
– TR
June 16, 2015 at 5:06 pm #825008
kharmaMemberGood info here. All kinds of bad behavior is on the increase in the area, witness the recent drug bust covered elsewhere on the blog. But the link shared wont apply to Beach Dr SW there because it is not an arterial.
June 16, 2015 at 5:29 pm #825009
I WonderMemberCan we request the holes on California by Genesee and Dakota be filled where the new gas lines were installed recently? Those are as bad a pot holes with the terrible patch job they did.
June 16, 2015 at 6:02 pm #825010
wakefloodParticipantI live on a short and much-walked street near the ferry. It has a slight slope and cars come down it WAAAAY too fast quite frequently. When I asked about installing speed humps, I was told there was a several step process that included installing speed measuring traps and waiting to gather data before any possible installation could occur – short of an actual incident, which we haven’t had to my knowledge.
Is that still the protocol? It sounded like a year or two before anything could get through the process?
June 16, 2015 at 6:08 pm #825011
Chris FMemberI sent an email to the address suggested by the WSB, but got an error message back :( We have actually had an accident on this short roadway – last year a speeding car went up on the sidewalk, barely missing a man pushing a stroller, and damaged the railing along the beach. We call constantly and take pictures of the tire marks when the peal out. Spent last Saturday washing the graffiti off of the nature signs and garbage cans along constellation beach . . . and the summer has just begun.
June 16, 2015 at 7:20 pm #825012
miwsParticipantI Wonder, I don’t know if the crappy patch jobs would be considered “minor” road repair, but this might be a start:
https://seattle-csrprodcwi.motorolasolutions.com/ServiceRequest.mvc/SRIntakeStep2?id=TRPOTHOL
It looks like there is an option to comment, somewhere with in the reporting process, so I would definitely make a point of mentioning the name of the company that did the lousy job, and perhaps suggesting to SDOT that the company be forced to come back and do it right, and immediately, or that SDOT repair it properly, and bill the offending Co. for the full cost.
Heck, if the offending Co. is known, I’d be tempted to write them a firm, but polite note too.
This was one of my biggest peeves back when I had a car, or otherwise was driving regularly. Mainly, I think, because it seemed like every time the City was able to do a nice repaving job on a significant section of road, it wasn’t long at all before some utility Co. was in there tearing it up, doing a totally crappy and inadequate patch-up, and we’d get Seattle’s latest repeating pothole.
Mike
June 17, 2015 at 8:41 pm #825013
KatieHParticipantThis is the reply I received from the City of Seattle:
SDOT has a Neighborhood Traffic Calming Program that was developed to help address speeding and cut-thru traffic on residential streets. Due to extensive demand and limited funds, SDOT requires community involvement. If you and your neighbors would be willing to participate in this program on behalf of your community, you would be committing to gather speed data on your street through the use of a radar speed gun that SDOT will lend the community. This will help us establish a common understanding of what the traffic speeds are.
If after participating in our traffic calming program, we find that speeds are high, 15 percent of the drivers are traveling at speeds in excess of 30 mph, then SDOT will work with the community to identify funding an appropriate traffic calming devices. Most residents who participate in this program find that drivers are generally going the speed limit, which is good news! Additional information about the program is available at: http://www.seattle.gov/transportation/ntcp_calming.htm.
Thank you again for writing. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact SDOTs Shauna Walgren directly at shauna.walgren@seattle.gov or (206) 684-8681. Ms. Walgren will be happy to assist you further.
Sincerely,
Gretchen Conrad
Neighborhood Traffic Operations
Seattle Department of Transportation
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