TRAFFIC IN RESIDENTIAL AREAS

North Albany Middle School, 11/17/98

• Create a street (ROW) connecting Pacific Boulevard with 9th Street approximately halfway between Geary and Sherman Streets. The intersections are too far apart for a couplet. (11/12/98)
• Jackson Street exit lane (west) configuration not needed. All three lanes are needed for Pacific westbound. (11/12/98)
• Street widths:

1. narrow residential vs. widen main arteries

• Speed management:

1. stop signs (not too many)
2. traffic circles
3. speed bumps (25 mph, Lincoln City, Gresham)
4. corner bulbs at intersections (narrows)

• Traffic diversion to relieve congestion:

1. areas of concern include Lehigh, 13th & Thurston, North Albany Road

• Plan for pedestrian (maybe bicycle) traffic:

1. sidewalks and safe crossings

• Increase police presence:

1. radar scopes and display
2. routine routes at peak times
3. increase fines

• Awareness education/common courtesy:

1. high schools
2. door-to-door

• Neighborhood Traffic Control

1. traffic calming devices (roundabouts, speed bump, stop signs)
2. increased enforcement of existing law/limits (shortage of officers)
3. time traffic lights to encourage speed compliance
4. add speed bumps
5. increase signage
6. prohibit truck access other than local delivery
7. unified plan for protecting the neighborhood
8. make pedestrian safety a priority
9. make it necessary (more convenient to use the highways/through streets)
10. control traffic for benefit of the local users
11. improve airport
12. improve Grand Prairie interchange
13. enforcement of existing parking regulations, specifically 13.21.030; but also the rest of the existing ordinance
14. widen bridge on Pacific over railroad

• Truck Route

1. stop trucks from cutting through neighborhoods
2. determine which roads will be open for trucks (set up a process to update routes)
3. clearly mark truck routes
4. pass ordinance to enforce truck routes (such as no through trucks)
5. check with Leb.
6. a way to notify local trucking companies of legal truck routes
7. set up a system to coordinate access between city/county/state for freeway access: North Albany, south Albany
8. plan ahead-seven-mile lane
9. Queen Street overpass for railroad

Calapooia Middle School, 11/19/98

• Street Issues:

1. Through street definition
2. Commercial truck routing prob.
   1. discourage shortcuts
   2. 20th Avenue shortcut
   3. East Jefferson

• Narrow streets

1. slows traffic
2. cost is less for develop and maintenance
3. environmentally friendly
4. narrower in residential runoff issues

• More bike lanes
  1. slows traffic
  2. safer for people getting out of cars
• Ask neighbors about street design before it is designed
• Parking-diagonal parking downtown
• Establish reasonable speed limit