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The Town Council unanimously voted Tuesday night to approve the installation of speed lumps on Del Amigo Road in an effort to reduce high-speed traffic in the area. Part of a year-long effort by a neighborhood traffic management group, the action follows years of debate among residents.
The area in question is between Calmar Vista and Bradford Place, where speed and volume studies reportedly confirmed residents’ concerns. In May 2009, the study showed that 1,550 vehicles travel the area between Emerald and Diamond drives, with 80 percent of drivers going 32 mph in the 25-mph zone. Between Diamond Drive and Bradford Place, reports show 1,200 vehicles using the roadway each day, with 85 percent of drivers going 28 mph.
Reports show disagreements between residents over the addition of speed lumps. The Neighborhood Traffic Management Program, which started in 1996, has helped bring resident consensus over traffic issues.
As early as 2000, Town reports show the neighborhood was unable to secure support as the older neighborhood’s boundaries were difficult to define. In 2004, a NTMP provision allowed these neighborhoods to be defined by those impacted by the traffic safety concerns.
In September, impacted residents met and decided to pursue the addition of speed lumps, based on a 10-year track of effectiveness on other Danville streets. The decision was reached with 88 percent of Del Amigo Road residents and 80 percent of residents on adjacent streets in favor.
By Emily West
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I am an “adjacent street resident” and travel it every day. Rarely see traffic over the speed limit. When I do, it most often appears to be a Del Amigo Road or adjacent street resident based on the driveways the cars pull into/leave. Have to say it seems like a waste of town investment and resources when the place they plan to put them represented a +3 mph difference. Will also slow police, fire and EMS responses. Unable to attend the meeting to voice that opinion so will have to live with the decision.
I disagree……our track team runs on this street a couple times a week and there has been multiple incidents where cars come speeding by and cut it close. The installation of the speed bumps may be inconvenient while they’re being put in, but in the long run, it will create much safer conditions for everyone.
Dear Emily,
I, myself, like speed bumps. When I walk neighborhoods in our region for my daily exercise, I go out in the street and walk over the speed bumps. Speed bumps make me feel taller.
The ROFL in Ralph N. Shirlet
Can we pick who we want to be the speed lumps? I have several candidates…
The road that needs speed lumps is Blemer Road. Los Cerros Middle school is on this road and it is crossed by kids coming from Green Valley Elementary and Monte Vista. I often see many cars driving at an unsafe speed on a road that has lots of school traffic. On non school days cars coming out of Los Cerros’s back parking lot are racing down after a sporting event forgetting that this road is commonly used by walkers and hikers from the creek trail.