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Yes, please. I was clipped by an elderly speeding woman about a year ago. There seems to be no regard for pedestrians on this street. Even 25mph when there are pedestrians is not safe. Wildlife is also being impacted. Squirrels ducks are being killed.

Pinellas County Public Works assigned this issue to Pinellas County Public Works - Traffic Engineering

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. It cannot be done anonymously.

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. If 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.

If the speed (and/or volume) warrant(s) are met, we prepare a traffic calming plan (TCP) for calming the road(s) 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 are available for us to use to attempt to address speeding and/or cut thru issues. Unfortunately, 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. I see that 110th Ave N is already stopped at both 105th Ln N and 104th St N, and there are no intersections east of 104th St N to create another multi-way stop.

Speeding is an enforcement issue that is often times best handled by the Sherriff’s office. Please feel free to contact Sgt Stephen Bergstrom, of the Sheriff’s Office, yourself at 727-582-6915 for assistance. I will assign this issue to the Sheriff for whatever action they deem appropriate.

Along with increased enforcement, we can also offer our SMARTrailer (radar speed feedback trailer). We can deploy it on your street for a week if that is of interest to you. We can also prepare you some Neighborhood Flyers to distribute. I can do that easily enough without any more effort of your part. If you want more information about the RTM program, want some Neighborhood Fliers, or wish for us to deploy the SMARTRailer to 110th Ave N, please call or email us.

I hope this addresses your request. Should you want to discuss further, or require additional info, please let me know.

Regards,

Jim Cannon
Pinellas County PW Transportation
22211 US Highway 19 North, Bldg #1
Clearwater, FL 33765
Phone (727) 464-8818
Fax (727) 464-8803

Pinellas County Public Works - Traffic Engineering assigned this issue to Pinellas County Sheriff Office

It would be best to do your speeding study during the winter months. However the real issue is the pedestrian safety. Passing pedestrians at the posted 25mph on a narrow road is not solving the issue. The majority of these careless drivers are elderly and don’t see us or don’t care. They have been seen to speed up and drive towards walkers. The sheriff can’t do anything unless there is an injury. Sidewalks, posted signs or even reducing the speed would be the best remedy.

You'd need to contact our offices to request a speed study, and go through the motions of the RTM program. The Sheriff enforces the speed limit, not our engineering office, and can ticket for speeding and careless driving.

To request sidewalks, please contact David Deranzio, Program Coordinator at 727-464-8736. He can research the area and add this location to the list, if it's not already on it.

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