This web page is designed to be a central repository to
disseminate information about our quest for speed bumps/humps to help slow
down the speeders in the blind curve on our road. If you would like to
sign the petition or help, please send me an e-mail.
Thanks,
Latest News:
Last Updated:
09/29/2008 02:54 PM
7-4-08:
- 38 signatures on the petition.
7-3-08:
- I got a call back from Mitch Kennedy in Community Relations and here's
what I learned. He was actually in the neighborhood and called from
his car to let me know he had looked at the turn and the traffic counters.
This is a hot topic in the city right now because lots of neighborhoods
are complaining and want speed humps but this is not a line item in the
local budget so they don't have any funding. They have to be
creative as to where they get the funds from. They are trying to
make this a line item in next year's budget. Speed humps cost
approximately $1,500 each. Other neighborhoods have done traffic
studies and the numbers to dot add up and it gets shot down. The
city's benchmarks may be too high for the amount on traffic necessary is to justify the humps.
The city has a traffic
engineer under contract to re-evaluate these benchmarks. IWhen the
numbers come in, we will set up a community meeting to sit down and
discuss the problem with Mitch Kennedy and a traffic technician.
I’ll need your support at this meeting and let you know when it is
scheduled.
- My big opinion :
Why is the amount of traffic the city's main criteria for whether or not
to install speed humps? Shouldn't this be based on the danger to
citizens? If you use this logic, we should have speed humps all over
Highway 29 since it sees the most traffic, right? The fact that we
don't have a lot of traffic on our road provides a false sense of security and
makes the situation even more dangerous.
- Left voice mail for Mitch Kennedy(596-2785) in Community Relations. Sent e-mail to
Mitch Kennedy.
Click here to send an e-mail to Mitch Kennedy.
- I got a call back from Les Foster in Traffic Engineering. Very
nice guy and willing to help. He is the one that put the traffic
counters in the road after he received a call from Sgt. Paul Roper.
He agreed to add a sign saying something like "dangerous Turn", 15 mph.
According to Les, Mitch Kennedy(596-2785) in Community Relations is a key
person to get involved and Les suggested that I call him. He said
Mitch will be interested in the petition that we have signed
7-1-08
- The traffic survey sensors are on Pineville Road. <<<<<<crowd
roar>>>>>>> Hopefully we will have enough traffic to justify the
speed humps.
- I called and left a message and
sent an e-mail to Les Foster in the
Spartanburg Traffic Engineering department
(596-3741)
6-30-08
- After an hour or so of door to door visits with the kids, we got 28 signatures on the petition. OK, 6 of
them are signatures by the children,
but hey, they have a vested interest in this too and they are citizens of
Spartanburg. Every neighbor on Pineville Road that we talked to this
evening has signed the petition.
- Sgt. Paul Roper with Spartanburg Public Safety has been very helpful and will be adding
sensors on the road to measure times and speeds of cars traveling on
Pineville Road. He sent an officer out today to look at the situation
and they are using radar to measure speeds of cars near the curve.
Next Steps:
- When the numbers come in from the traffic study, we will set up a
community meeting to sit down and discuss the problem with Mitch and a
traffic technician. The entire neighborhood will be invited to
attend.
Obstacles:
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Amount of traffic:
According to Sgt. Roper, one of the major pre-requisite for the city to
consider Pineville Road is the amount of traffic. Apparently if
there aren't enough cars driving by, this can get shot down in a hurry.
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Money: This is a hot
topic in the city right now because lots of neighborhoods are complaining
and want speed humps but this is not a line item in the local budget so
they don't have any funding. they have to be creative as to where
they get the funds from. They are trying to add this into next
year's budget. Speed humps cost approximately $1,500 each.
Ideas?
Miscellaneous
- Here's a not so encouraging quote from an
article I read at an Upstate newspaper:
- If speeding is a constant problem, speed bumps (narrow strips
across the road) or speed humps (larger, with a more gradual curve) could be
an option. For that to happen, 75 percent of the residents on the street in
question must agree they are needed, a study must conclude that 85 percent
of the traffic on the street is going 10 mph over the speed limit, and the
road must be traveled by 750 cars per day, said transportation planner Jim
D'Amato. For more information, call the county's Public Works Department at
595-5320.
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