Description
Colonial Blvd in Dove Hollow is a residential connector between Belcher road and 19. The traffic cutting through is heavy and drives very fast. All the school bus stops are on this road and the speeding is a danger to the kids and residents go attempt to cross the street on foot.
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Pinellas County Communications (Membre officiel vérifié)
Pinellas County Public Works - Traffic Management (Membre officiel vérifié)
Reconnu Pinellas County Public Works - Traffic Engineering (Membre officiel vérifié)
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Kevin Flood (Utilisateur inscrit)
Pinellas County Public Works - Traffic Engineering (Membre officiel vérifié)
Colonial Blvd is functionally classified as a local major street. While local major streets are eligible for traffic calming, they must meet a higher standard of criteria and not all traffic calming devices can be considered.
The County’s Residential Traffic Management (RTM) program was created to help address issues of speeding and cut thru traffic. It’s a multi-step program requiring the participation of an active homeowner’s association (HOA) and an individual citizen like yourself, willing to be the contact person.
The first step in the process requires the contact person circulate a study request form and obtain signatures from 33% of the households within the study request area and to complete and return the project application form. Once the forms are returned, we will place counters down on the road(s), at specific locations, to collect speed and volume data for a 24 hr to 48 hr period.
For a road to qualify for any type of traffic calming, counts must reflect excessive speeds and/or volumes. As the area is posted at 25 MPH, the speed of the 85th percentile would have to be at or above 37 MPH (or 12 mph above the posted speed limit) to meet the speed warrant, and/or volumes would (at a minimum) need to exceed 10 trips per day per household within the study area to meet the volume warrant. The commercial businesses at Colonial Blvd and US 19 will also be considered as they will increase the expected volumes on Colonial Blvd.
If the speed (and/or volume) warrant(s) are met, we prepare a traffic calming plan (TCP) for calming the road along with petitions that a minimum of 60% of the property owners (renters can’t sign) within the affected area must sign and be in favor of the proposed traffic control measures, before they will be considered for approval. The contact person is required to circulate the petitions and obtain notification of 90% of all the property owners in the affected area. Keep in mind that the affected area may extend beyond just the property owners abutting the calmed street.
Stop signs and/or electronic speed feedback signs are available for us to use to attempt to address speeding and/or cut thru issues. Speed humps were removed from the program some years ago, by the Board of County Commissioners, as part of their budget reductions, so they are not available for us to offer anybody for use with traffic calming. Speeding is an enforcement issue that is often times best handled by the Sheriff's office. Please feel free to contact Sgt Mark Eastty, of the Sheriff’s Community Policing Unit, yourself at 727-582-6915 for assistance. I will re-assign this issue to the Sheriff’s Office so they are aware of your concerns.
Along with increased enforcement, we can also offer our SMARTrailer (radar speed feedback trailer). We can deploy it on Colonial Blvd week if that is of interest to you. We can also prepare you some Neighborhood Flyers to distribute. If you would like to try some Neighborhood Flyers or the SMARTrailer, just let me know. I can do that easily enough without any more effort of your part. If you want more information about the RTM program, please call or email for a program packet.
Please visit www.pinellascounty.org/surveys/PublicWorks to tell us how we are doing, Thank You!
Regards,
Jim Cannon
Pinellas County Public Works Transportation
22211 US Highway 19 North
Clearwater, FL 33765
Phone (727) 464-8818
Fax (727) 464-8803
jcannon@pinellascounty.org
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Pinellas County Public Works - Traffic Engineering (Membre officiel vérifié)
Doug (Utilisateur inscrit)
We really don’t have an active HOA so can we at least request the electronic feedback devices for awhile? Most of the speeding traffic does not live in the neighborhood it is just cutting through.
Thank you
Pinellas County Public Works - Traffic Engineering (Membre officiel vérifié)
Doug (Utilisateur inscrit)
Tony C (Utilisateur inscrit)
What are you waiting for? Until someone gets injured or even killed by the excess amount of traffic coming down Colonial Blvd. at excessive speeds? I have almost been "hit" a number of times trying to exit my street, Glossy Ibis Court to et onto Colonial Blvd. DO SOMETHING!!
Tony C
Kevin Flood (Utilisateur inscrit)
Clos Pinellas County Sheriff Office (Membre officiel vérifié)
Réouvert Tony C (Utilisateur inscrit)
How the hell can you "close" an issue that has NOT been resolved?
Tony C
Pinellas County Public Works - Traffic Engineering (Membre officiel vérifié)
Pinellas County Sheriff Office (Membre officiel vérifié)
Clos Pinellas County Public Works - Traffic Engineering (Membre officiel vérifié)
Réouvert Tony C (Utilisateur inscrit)
Why the heck did you "close" the "ongoing" issue when it has not been resolved yet? What is wrong with you people? FIX IT!
Tony C
Clos Pinellas County Public Works - Traffic Engineering (Membre officiel vérifié)
You've also been provided the contact information of you're Home Owners Association President, and have been directed to contact them for your input on the Traffic Calming project.