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09/12/2016 • Median islands • Tr�c circlea • Serpentine atreets,chicanes • Speed tables and raised cxosswalks • Speed humps • Turn prohibition signs • Diagonal diverters,forced hun channelization,median barriers GOALS and OBJECTIVES The goal of the City of Redwood City's Residential traffic calming Program is to establiah procedurea to facilitate installation of tr�c calming and measwea that will enhance the quality of life in tlie City's neighborhoods by mitigating die negative impacts af vehicular tr�c on residential streets. Objectives • To promote safe and pleasant conditions for people who live, wallc, bike, and drive on neighborhood atreets • To reduce the average speed of traffic on local neighborhood stre�s • To reduce the amount of cut-tlu�ough traffic on local neighborhood streexs • To preserve and enhance wallang and b�cing acceas to neighborhood destinations • To facilitate resident involvement in neighborhood tr�c management activities • To provide a process to prioritize neighborhood h�aff'ic calming requests Policies • Through-tr�c should be routed to the major roadways,whenevef poasible • The amount of rerouted traffic that ia acceptable as a reault of a traffic calsning project ahould be def'med on a project-by-project basis • Emergency vehicie access must be preserved • Each Traffic calming measure will be planned and designed in conformance with sound engineering and planning practicee • Uniform procedurea will be followed in the procesaing and prioritization of neighborhood tr�c calming requests TRAFFIC CALMING GUIDELINES Engineering Study Traffic calming measure�should only be installed where an engineering study concludes that: • Traffic calming installations can address speeding or cut-through traffic; • 7udicious use of other guide,waming or regulatory control devices has been conxidered but does not address the isaues; • A reasonable level of enforcement has not solved or appears unlikely to solve the problem, or a necessary level of enforccment ia unlikely t4 be made available;and • Key design guidelines,as outlined herein for loca6on,placement, configuration details,and related street and iraffic conditions, can be reasonably conforrned to at the xite under consideration. • The study location meets a combinaUon of the following eligibility measures. With emphasis on the apeed,volume and collision data. Page 3 of 13 ATTY/RES0.0088/CC RESO TRAFFIC CALMING ON RESIDENTIAL STREETS RESO.N0.15522 REV:09-01-16 JS MUFF NO.702