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.

What is Traffic Calming?

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.

What is not Traffic Calming?

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.

See Traffic Calming Requests

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.

Eligibility and Prioritization

To be considered a potential project under the Neighborhood Traffic Calming Program, a street first must have first passed DOMI’s initial Eligibility Screen and Prioritization Matrix. For more detailed information on these items as well as the review process and timeline, please see the City webpage here: https://pittsburghpa.gov/domi/traffic-calming

Current Projects

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):

Shaler Street Traffic Calming

Kelly Street Traffic Calming

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

North Charles Street Traffic Calming Phase 2

Lawrenceville Safety Suite

Termon Ave Traffic Calming

Johnston Ave Traffic Calming

Mansion St. Traffic Calming

Shady Avenue Traffic Calming

Bailey Avenue Traffic Calming

Morningside Neighborhood Traffic Calming

Pius Street Traffic Calming

Lemington Avenue Traffic Calming

North Charles Street Traffic Calming

Seagirt Street Traffic Calming

Dunster Street Traffic Calming

Dinwiddie Street Traffic Calming

Arlington Ave Traffic Calming

Bascom Ave Traffic Calming

Beacon Ave Traffic Calming

Bedford Ave Traffic Calming

Haberman Avenue Traffic Calming

Homewood Ave Traffic Calming

Stratmore Street Traffic Calming