Wightman Street Traffic Safety Improvements
A project to implement safety improvements at two intersections along Wightman Street
The primary goals of the program are to increase safety and comfort of travel by all modes and promote pedestrian, bicycle, and transit use. These goals reference and strengthen the City’s Mobility Principles.
The objectives, in order to meet these goals, include: reducing motorists speeds and/or volumes to increase safety, inducing compliance from motorists, and provide traffic control that is self-enforcing, reducing the need for police intervention.
Different types of traffic calming are appropriate on different types of streets – most often it involves physical safety improvements such as speed humps, speed cushions, speed tables, raised crosswalks, pedestrian islands, traffic circles, changes to lane widths, chicanes, etc. These measures have been proven to reduce speeding and increase safety. Typically, speed humps, speed cushions, and speed tables are the most common traffic calming measures on our streets given their effectiveness in managing vehicular speeds, but other measures can be proposed if they are deemed more effective on a given street.
The City’s Neighborhood Traffic Calming Program focuses on lower-cost measures effective at slowing vehicular speeds and/or volumes on residential streets. The program does not consider larger-scale solutions to traffic congestion nor speeding on higher-volume arterial streets. Instead, the Neighborhood Traffic Calming program is a community-driven, block-by-block solution to address speeding on local, residential streets.
In addition, traffic calming does not include the use of regulatory measures such as stop signs. Stop signs designate right-of-way for drivers at intersections and can only be installed if certain warrants are met. DOMI gives careful consideration to the installation of stop signs as they are frequently ignored if not warranted. Unlike traffic signals or stop signs at intersections, which do not reduce mid-block speeds, traffic calming measures encourage slower vehicular speed along the length of a block rather than at intersections.
If you have traffic-related or pedestrian safety issues at a particular intersection, these concerns are best communicated with the DOMI through the city’s 311 system.
Click the button below to see a map of the city's traffic calming requests submitted to DOMI. Streets are color-coded to identify streets where traffic calming work has been completed, is under design/construction, is being evaluated, or is not eligible for traffic calming.
The following locations have passed the Department’s initial Eligibility Screen, been evaluated for engineering criteria, and prioritized based on an engineering/safety score.
Please click on the individual project pages for more detailed information on each project.
(Individual Project Pages will be updated as they progress):
A project to implement safety improvements at two intersections along Wightman Street
Pedestrian crossings improvements are being implemented at two crossing locations along South Braddock Avenue.
Traffic calming measures coming to Lincoln-Lemington-Belmar between Lincoln Avenue and Stranahan Street.
Traffic calming measures coming to Allentown between Kathleen Street and E Warrington Avenue.
Traffic calming measures coming to Perry North between Evergreen Road and Perrsyville Ave.
Additional traffic calming measures coming to Brighton Heights between California Ave and Brighton Road.
Traffic calming measures coming to Brookline between Bellaire Avenue and the 1900 block.
Traffic calming measures coming to Meadow Street in Larimer.
A project to calm traffic on Larimer Avenue
A project to calm traffic and improve pedestrian crossing at Parkhurst and Federal.
A project to improve pedestrian safety at Highland and Jackson
A project to improve visibility and enhance the pedestrian experience at Lincoln and Rowan
A joint sidewalk gaps and neighborhood traffic calming project to improve the pedestrian experience at Rosedale St. and Hamilton Ave.
East Allegheny Neighborhood Traffic Calming
Hazelwood Avenue Traffic Calming
Herron Avenue & Melwood Avenue Pedestrian Crossing Improvements
Virginia Avenue Traffic Safety Improvement
Greenfield Ave Traffic Calming
Negley at Bryant Traffic Safety Hardscaping
Grandview Avenue Traffic Calming
Parkview Avenue Traffic Calming
Schenley Avenue / North Mathilda Street Traffic Calming
Morningside Neighborhood Traffic Calming
Lemington Avenue Traffic Calming
North Charles Street Traffic Calming
Seagirt Street Traffic Calming
Curb extensions visually and physically narrow the roadway, creating safer and shorter crossings for pedestrians
Speed tables are midblock traffic calming devices that raise the entire wheelbase of a vehicle to reduce its traffic speed. Speed tables are longer than speed humps and flat-topped
Narrower lanes are appropriate in urban areas and have a positive impact on a street’s safety without impacting traffic operations.
Offset curb extensions on residential or low volume downtown streets create a chicane effect that slows traffic speeds considerably.
Mini roundabouts, also known as neighborhood traffic circles, lower speeds at minor intersection crossings and are an ideal treatment for uncontrolled intersections.
Signals that were unwarranted when installed or are no longer warranted due to changes in traffic conditions can create safety and operational issues.
Raised intersections create a safe, slow-speed crossing and public space at minor intersections.
A pedestrian safety island reduces the exposure time experienced by a pedestrian in the intersection.
Midblock crosswalks facilitate crossings to places that people want to go but that are not well served by the existing traffic network.
Striping the parking lane indicates to drivers how close they are to parked cars, and visually narrows the road, reducing speeds.
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