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Tallyho Trail Traffic Calming Request
PURPOSE: The purpose of this item is to provide the Board with information relating to a traffic calming request from residents living along Tallyho Trail, and to consider implementing traffic calming measures.
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DEPARTMENT: Planning
CONTACT INFORMATION: Christina Moon - 919-918-7325
INFORMATION: The Town's Residential Traffic Management Plan (RTMP) provides a mechanism for residents to petition for the installation of traffic calming devices. Information on the RTMP and the associated request form can be found at: http://nc-carrboro.civicplus.com/719/Transportation.
Residents from the Fox Meadow subdivision submitted a traffic calming request to Planning Staff in May of 2012 and a signed petition in June of 2013 (Attachment D). A detailed staff report (Attachment B) provides an analysis of the application based on the steps outlined in the RTMP, and includes the results of traffic counts at four locations along Tallyho Trail: the 1000 block between Reynard Road and Bugle Court, the 1200 block between Bugle Court and Lair Court, the 1400 block also between Bugle Court and Lair Court and the 1500 block between Lair Court and Huntsman Court. The recommendations from Town staff, supported by the staff-level Traffic and Parking Committee, the TAB (Attachment C) and the neighborhood contacts, are to pursue Stage 1 traffic calming measures at this time and to reevaluate traffic conditions in three to six months. Stage 1 traffic calming focuses on education and enforcement measures rather than physical controls or impediments on the roadway. Some traffic measures have already been implemented since the time of the submittal. Public Works staff have installed two new speed limit signs on Tallyho Trail, one facing in each direction and have spaced all of the speed limit signs in accordance with today's standards.
FISCAL & STAFF IMPACT: Additional Police staff time will be necessary to ...
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