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The City of Tucson Department of Transportation and Mobility (DTM) is offering a Mini Grant to promote safe streets by addressing the concerns of citizens about speeding, cut-through traffic, and safety while walking, biking or driving. They recommend traffic circles, speed humps, chicanes, curb extensions, median barriers, diverters and street closures as options for traffic calming.
Using your comments on the PVNA Annual Survey, the Board tallied the frequency of locations mentioned and the written recommendations in your responses to come up with a set of proposed solutions. The solutions listed below have been edited and modified in response to your feedback. We may ask for a specific type of mitigation in the application, but City of Tucson engineers will decide what is optimal for a particular location.
We are requesting the following measures in the Mini Grant application:
Pima Street
Two areas of speed mitigation - one between Howard and Jones and one between Palo Verde and Dodge (in front of CHS). Crosswalks at Camilla/Pima and Howard/Pima (with lighted signage of pedestrian walkway ahead, or flashing lights indicating a crosswalk or a pedestrian island in the median) for the safety of children and bus riders.
Howard Blvd (Proposed Bike Blvd Route)
Either close Bellevue at Howard or install a large traffic circle. Closure as a through street would be most cost effective. If placed on the west side of Howard, it could also reduce the traffic on Howard. Speed mitigation (traffic circles) at Howard and Lee and at Howard and Linden.
Camilla Blvd
Speed mitigation between Speedway and Bellevue or a traffic circle at Camilla and Bellevue to slow down the traffic from Circle K. A traffic circle at Camilla and Waverly (with a permeable base) would reduce traffic speed and also help with flooding concerns.
We will need volunteers to help gather support for this project. Local residents will be needed to collect signatures for specific work at each location. To volunteer, email us at info@paloverdeneighborhood.org.
The Safe Street Mini Grant application has been reviewed and approved by the Board and will be submitted on Monday, December 23rd.
If you have questions or want to provide more information for the project, email Jayla, Chair of Streets, Parks and Beautification at pvnaspb@gmail.com.
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