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June 25, 2008 at 8:25 pm #587293
transplantellaParticipantHow does one lobby to get some kind of speed bump or traffic calming device installed on a west Seattle residential street?
We live on Lincoln Park Way, which connects to Beach Dr. and is next to Lincoln Park. It is a madhouse of traffic and weekends are particularly bad. Thunderous motorcycle groups, hot rods, unmuffled pick up trucks racing by at high speeds.
It’s not a problem that there is a lot of vehicle traffic, but the speeds at which people drive are much too fast for a residential neighborhood. I don’t suppose the Seattle PD would like to plant a traffic cop around here 7 days a week (although it would be a money maker), we need a better solutiuon.
So what is the process for requesting traffic calming devices?
June 25, 2008 at 8:32 pm #628897
SueParticipantHere’s info on the Neighborhood Speedwatch Program, which I believe is a requirement before they decide if a traffic calming method is necessary: http://www.seattle.gov/transportation/speedwatch.htm
and the link for the traffic calming measures: http://www.seattle.gov/transportation/ntcpprogram.htm
June 25, 2008 at 8:37 pm #628898
AnonymousInactiveI feel your pain but good luck. Peeps have to die or the chity has to get sued before they will do anything. Happy Day! :)
June 25, 2008 at 8:53 pm #628899
KenParticipantCongratulations. You live on a designated arterial. At least according to google maps…
Your street IS the traffic calming device for the rest of the neighborhood.
It is also the only path down that ridge without a long switchback.
Enjoy.
June 25, 2008 at 9:00 pm #628900
AnonymousInactiveHey Trans, I live on an arterial too. Maybe we can drown our sorrows at BPP or Jen V’s new pliz-zace.
June 25, 2008 at 9:02 pm #628901
transplantellaParticipantMake me an offer!
June 25, 2008 at 9:35 pm #628902
WSBKeymasterAnd so do we. Actually on a corner where one arterial turns into another. After 15 years, we barely notice the noise any more … of course, before Seattle we lived in the San Diego beach neighborhood under the takeoff path for the airport, where you had to learn to lip-read … TR
June 26, 2008 at 1:00 am #628903
SueParticipantI grew up halfway between LaGuardia and Kennedy Airports in NYC, and down the block from a Long Island Railroad maintenance station. Growing up with the noise of the planes and the trains (not to mention the general city noise) makes it so that I can’t sleep if it’s too quiet – it’s too “foreign.” My junior high school was a short distance from Kennedy Airport, and when the Concorde used to depart regularly in the late 70’s, it would shake the building so hard and the sound was so deafening that teachers had to stop teaching until it stopped. So I guess in comparison, my living on Fauntleroy ain’t so bad noise-wise. :)
June 26, 2008 at 1:35 am #628904
JeffroMemberKen, I don’t mean to nitpick but Beach Drive is an arterial and it has speed bumps, so it wouldn’t be a precedent. Or maybe it’s only arterials with multi-million dollar properties that get traffic-calming devices.
/Also lives on an arterial
June 26, 2008 at 1:40 am #628905
IrukandjiParticipantwsblover: You are so right about having a body count before any real action will take place. I’ve asked the traffic folks just HOW MANY people have to die on Admiral Way before real measures are taken to slow traffic down to something near the 30MPH limit. No one will give me an answer.
I love San Diego – I remember the theater in Balboa Park where the actors would freeze on stage to allow the planes to pass. Great way to compromise!
June 26, 2008 at 6:39 am #628906
WSBKeymasterJeffro, that came up in some meeting we were covering in the past few months. Believe it or not, Beach Drive is a “secondary arterial” (or similar phrase) so those devices were considered OK.
June 26, 2008 at 5:28 pm #628907
JeffroMember“Secondary arterial” is a new distinction to me. There are maybe five or six roads in West Seattle that are more “primary” than Beach Drive (Fauntleroy, Admiral, 35th, …). Maybe it’s the presence of multi-million dollar houses that makes an arterial a secondary one. I find it odd that one has to slow down to 10 MPH on a road that has a speed limit of 30 MPH.
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