Speeding is a problem ALL OVER Tyler and the County! God forbid they ever run over me or my family!!! And it's not just Speeding..... Running Red Lights/Signs, Weaving in Traffic, and yes.... Texting and Phone Usage while driving... among other violations! I'm Tired of it!!!!

Hey Skip you are so right on all mentioned above. Just think Christmas shopping is not far away. I don't get out in that unless it is in the wee hours of the morning. You know those cell phone are too much. I was first on the scene at a car accident and the young lady as she got out of the car, she said I was talking to my mother on my phone. I wonder if the police ever got that info. These new cars have phone in them you just blue tooth your cell to the phone in the car. I am not sure how good that is going to work to operate. I think maybe there are control on the steering wheel, haven't checked that out. There is going to be heavy traffic, angry people, shovers, hand signs not so nice, push and shove, and there is more but I am not going to keep the list going. May all the shoppers be safe .

Hey CC.... You are so right. It's already bad during the year... but in a few weeks..... HORRIBLE!!!

I try to stay at home! :)

It is asked as you sign into this See It Fix It has your issue been solved ? No will t ever be fixed ? So far that gets a no also. When will it be fixed, the speeding, well it has been open 181 days, now someone tell me when the speeding will get fixed. Many speeding tickets could be wrote if a policeman/woman would stay around here long enough and frequent this area. Maybe by that the people will get use to a speed trap and wonder if the is a policeman/woman is lurking in this area. Hide like you do in other areas in town. I will keep this issue open and keep thinking what else can I do to prevent accidents and deaths of innocent people. From speeding cars, pickup trucks, we have garbage trucks, Fed Ex trucks, Ups trucks, how quickly can they stop? If there is anyone else that knows about this issue on Woodland Hills that runs from Old Jacksonville and Old Bullard Rd. please vent out in this discussion that I seem to be the only one doing so.

I reported this to the mayor's office. Although I understand driver's should slow down due to the stop sign, their response does not take into account a few important issues related to pedestrians.

I contacted our City Traffic Engineer and asked for his professional assessment of the situation. Below is his response to my inquiry.

"Although the speed limit is 40 MPH on Old Bullard, the intersection of Old Bullard and Chimney Rock has a 4-way stop. Therefore, vehicular speed is actually at zero. If pedestrians need to cross, this would be the safest location. Approaching and departing vehicles from the four-way stop should be well under 40 MPH with or without any speed limit sign. The 40 MPH is the maximum allowable speed for the entire corridor under ideal conditions. I don't believe that changing it just for this vicinity would have significant impact on speed. Lowering the speed to 30 MPH also has very little impact for pedestrians unless someone is jay-walking. This is typically ok for low volume residential streets but not a good idea for commercial areas."

I hope this information helps shed light on his approach to determining the speed limit in this area.

Again, thank you for contacting Mayor Bass.

Susan

I do not think the speed limit on Old Bullard Road on the Mall side is monitored if they do I haven't seen them. I believe we have enough policeman/women but they are stretched out from the North side to the South side including other areas. I am still dealing with a year old complaint of the speeding on Woodland Hills between Old Jacksonville HWY and Old Bullard. We have had one death which is one too many an innocent child and me and some neighbors are trying to get some kind of control because a lot of people and business vehicles do not go 30MPH. It is scary when you see a garbage truck flying down the street no time to stop if someone is in the road, like a child. That is just one example. Something will happen hopefully soon to control the speeding from Old Jacksonville to Brookside Dr. It's like that speedway in Germany where they can drive very fast on. Can't spell it but you know what I am talking about. I hope everyone stays safe around here and hoping for a solution soon.

In general, a car travelling @ 40 m.p.h. is going about 65 ft./sec. and a general calculated stopping distance would be between 118-164 feet to stop, including reaction time or thinking time. There is a traffic sign showing there is a stop sign ahead; however, notice the drivers who do not begin to decelerate early enough. Any painted crosswalk or flashing signal would be appropriate, I feel.

In Germany, pedestrians always have the right of way. A car must stop for a pedestrian.

I feel we understand the speed limit at a stop sign is zero (although I would thank the City Engineer's office for clarifying this). There is a warning sign which indicates there is a stop sign ahead. Why is it the wider 4 and 6 lane roads, with commercial development alongside, have a limit of 35 mph, but Old Bullard is 40 mph? It seems the businesses along this stretch would appreciate a lower speed limit, too. More visibility.....

Please keep this post going and please vote to fix it. More votes are needed.

I have been fighting along with other neighbors about speeding on Woodland Hills Dr. for many days and few years. Speed limit is 30mph, do you honestly think that is followed, NO it is not even with one of those machines that tell you how fast you are going, ignored. There has been a child killed at one of the intersections and Woodland Hills Dr. I hear people saying that there are not enough deaths to warrant a stop sign or light. I hate that statement, one death is too many and a child is definitely one too many, the innocent. There have been some other car accidents at a intersection on the same road in question. The street department or who ever is responsible need to make speed limit signs and stop signs visible and cut back the trees so the sign may be seen. I am not saying that will help the speeding but at least you won't be able to say "I didn't see a sign". Woodland Hills Dr. is a cut through from Old Jacksonville Hwy to Old Bullard Road. I am in a position that I can see the traffic and all the speeders. There are so many speeders on my street and the limit is 30mph too. Pick up trucks to UPS, FedEx and Sanitation along with some business vehicles. Old Bullard Road is 40mph and there is speeding on that street as well. I can only complain for what I see and try to have something done to protect all of us. My time is limited and I won't be here to fight this issue, so let this issue become a closed fixed issue. North Tyler is covered with the police because they too have issues but different from our complaints, but can't they help us? The police set up speed traps in a lot of places why not on Woodland Hill Dr.? We are just important as others and the children are the innocent and we all need protection from speeders. I bet we as in neighborhood could collect the money for a stop sign or a street light, boy that would be good and light, Ha won't happen.
, I/we will settle for a stop sign an 4 way stop sign or as the put on the signs now ALL WAY stop. Anyone that lives in this area please comment to help fix this issue. Thank You.

Jenny58, We are to give the pedestrians here the right away and that does not always happen. I have seen only one person pulled over because of someone violating that law. So it is not just Germany. Now as you know the law is not always abided by. Keep this issue open and continue with your traffic complaints and maybe some day an issue will be fixed.

The National Pedestrian Crash Report cite Texas in the top 3 states for pedestrian accidents. The posted speed limit factors into the
study, and of many contributing factors, emphasis on speed limits are somewhat vetted in the study. It is further vetted in the report that most drivers committed some type of unsafe act at the time, and further "...more attention may need to be paid to law enforcement and driver training." The findings state that "Pedestrian safety is an essential concern in planning and control of the transportation system." In this era of high technology, it is possible to identify streets, posted speed limits, lighting, signage other measures to fix and provide "safety systems and countermeasures" for more pedestrian-friendly cities, including Tyler, Texas.

There are many ways to advocate for safe pedestrian walking routes. It takes interested people and a coalition willing to take on the city planners. While there is a study that recognizes the need for safety, there ought to be continuous efforts to identify and reolve immediately these unsafe places. What will it take? In Austin, law enforcement work undercover to find and prosecute drivers who do not drive responsibly, even in a crosswalk zone. So many ways to remediate and make the community friendly to pedestrians. We are all pedestrians!

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Our governor vetoed legislation in 2009 in spite of the majority who voted to add pedestrian safety measures, and in spite of the infamous reputation of being in the top 3 states for pedestrian fatalities.

More than one life will never be the same.

It is an ignominious reputation: to contribute to the data for pedestrian safety problems. An abcnews report found a study citing "The majority of these deaths share a common thread: they occurred along arterial roadways that were dangerous by design, streets engineered for speeding traffic with little or no provision for people on foot, in wheelchairs or on bicycles."

Even though the Governors' Highway Safety Association has a stated policy (see below), our governor vetoed additional pedestrian safety measures. Why? The crash data reports provide a means to document, these should be done correctly, yet they are often unreliable according to an audit done by the Texas department overseeing this function. Why? Enforcement of laws to protect pedestrians... Why not?

G.3 Pedestrian Safety
GHSA supports efforts to raise public awareness about the problem of pedestrian safety and encourages implementation of community-based pedestrian safety countermeasures.
Additionally, the Association urges state and local jurisdictions to implement special pedestrian safety emphasis programs for young children and older adults since these groups constitute the largest percentage of pedestrian fatalities and injuries.
GHSA also supports further research on pedestrian issues as well as monitoring and evaluating progress toward reducing pedestrian fatalities and injuries.
GHSA supports enforcement of traffic laws to protect pedestrians, in particular those laws protecting pedestrians crossing roadways at crosswalks

In 2012, vehicles on Texas roads struck more than 5,000 pedestrians resulting in 2,962 serious injuries and 481 fatalities.
Vehicles also struck more than 2,000 bicycle-riders resulting in 1,450 serious injuries and 56 fatalities.
Back-to-school means back-to-traffic, and from 2011 to 2012, we saw over a 13 percent increase in fatalities of pedestrians (13.2%) and over a 19 percent increase in fatalities for cyclists (19.1%).
From the Texas DoT. Drive Friendly. Drive Safe.

When opening Tyler news recently, the news was about another pedestrian accident. Not all are equal but all are horrible.

Eleven New Yorkers have been killed in auto crashes in 2014, including seven pedestrians. Last year, 173 pedestrians were killed in the city, and overall 286 people died in traffic accidents. The mayor’s push includes handing out more tickets to reckless drivers and lowering speed limits.

De Blasio aims for zero traffic deaths with plan to halt pedestrian killings

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/de-blasio-aims-zero-pedestiran-deaths-traffic-article-1.1581326#ixzz2uUgujv9g
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/de-blasio-aims-zero-pedestiran-deaths-traffic-article-1.1581326#ixzz2uUgYhtl5

Texas typically ranks at the top of the national list for pedestrian, bicycle, motorcycle and car accidents. According to the Texas Department of Transportation, 211,006 people were injured in a motor vehicle crash in Texas during 2011.

Other crash statistics for Texas include:

3,015 people were killed in a Texas motor vehicle collision in 2011.
Someone was killed, on average, every two hours across Texas during 2011.
79,573 people were seriously injured in a Texas motor vehicle accident in 2011.
In 2011, someone was injured in Texas every two-and-a-half minutes.
Not a single day passed in 2011 without a fatal motor vehicle collision in Texas.
April was the deadliest month. with 287 fatalities. September 18 was the deadliest day during 2011, with 25 people killed.
A driver was under the influence of alcohol in 35.4 percent of all fatal crashes in 2011.
479 motorcyclists were killed across Texas in 2011.
Pedestrian deaths increased by 17 percent in 2011, with a total of 417 people killed in a pedestrian traffic crash.
46 bicyclists were fatally injured in a traffic crash in 2011, marking a seven percent increase from the previous year.

Raised Medians and Pedestrian Refuge Areas

Pedestrian crashes account for about 12 percent of all traffic fatalities annually. Over 75 percent of these fatalities occur at non-intersection locations. On average, a pedestrian is killed in a motor vehicle crash every 120 minutes and one is injured every 8 minutes.2 Many of these crashes are preventable. By providing raised medians and pedestrian refuge islands, we can bring these crash numbers down, prevent injuries, and save lives.

The median is the area between opposing lanes of traffic—a median can either be open (pavement markings only) or they can be channelized (raised medians or islands) to separate various road users.

Credit: safety.fhwa.dot.gov

Providing raised medians or pedestrian refuge areas at pedestrian crossings at marked crosswalks has demonstrated a 46 percent reduction in pedestrian crashes. At unmarked crosswalk locations, pedestrian crashes have been reduced by 39 percent.3 Installing raised pedestrian refuge islands on the approaches to unsignalized intersections has had the most impact reducing pedestrian crashes.

Report: Involving a PEDESTRIAN ... report from the Texas Department of Transportation

Tyler Texas Crash Years: A. Fatal Crashes. B. Incapacitating Injury Crashes. C. Non-Incapacitating Injury Crashes
D. Possible Injury Crashes. E. Non-Injury Crashes. F. Unknown Injury Crashes
G. Total Crashes. H. Total Vehicles. Source:TxDOT

A. B. C. D. E. F. G. H.
2009 5 3 8 5 0 0 21 25.
2010 0 4 15 2 0 0 21 22
2011 0 4 6 6 0 0 16 17
2012 3 4 7 3 1 0 18 18
2013 1 10 8 5 2 0 26 31. Please vote to fix it!
2014 YtD 2 1 1 1 0 0 5 5

We have to pass a test to drive. Maybe we need a test to become a pedestrian. Does anyone know the regulations for pedestrians, and where to find the chapter and verse in the law books?

Walking Points... By the Texas Transportation Code
Where to Walk? On a sidewalk, if one is provided and accessible... Like here on Old Bullard

One can actually leave the scene and not be charged...I DONT get it law enforcement!

Staff Report
NewsWest 9

MIDLAND - A Midland man is dead after being struck by a car on Monday night.

The accident happened after 7 p.m. near "A" Street and Texas Avenue in Midland.

Officials say they found 86-year-old George Huffman Landreth lying in the outside southbound lane of "A" Street.

We're told that Huffman was walking across "A" Street towards First Presbyterian Church and that's when an Oldsmobile hit him.

Apparently, the driver left the scene but called police from a nearby 7-11 to report that there had been an accident.

The accident is still under investigation and no charges have been filed.

Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.

Sec. 552.003. PEDESTRIAN RIGHT-OF-WAY AT CROSSWALK. (a) The operator of a vehicle shall yield the right-of-way to a pedestrian crossing a roadway in a crosswalk if:
(1) no traffic control signal is in place or in operation; and
(2) the pedestrian is:
(A) on the half of the roadway in which the vehicle is traveling; or
(B) approaching so closely from the opposite half of the roadway as to be in danger.

Newly proposed legislation will require states to focus federal resources in areas where there have been an increase in pedestrian fatalities or injuries, one politician said.

U.S Rep. Joseph Crowley created the Pedestrian Fatalities Reduction Act of 2014 to help prevent another traffic fatality from occurring on New York City streets.

Let's get this rolling in Texas, before more lives are ruined!

"However, this bill doesn’t include even the flabby “consequences” that U.S. DOT seeks to impose on states that don’t meet their safety targets, like the requirement to use safety money to address safety concerns. Crowley just wants to hear from the states how they’ll try to do better next time. Though the SHSP is required for federal funding, nowhere in his bill does it state that significant action or improvement is required to get that federal funding."

Tanya Snyder Streetsblog

Yet cities may hide behind immunity rules. Sick!

Old Bullard shut down because of accident here today

Traffic Alert: Old Bullard Rd in Tyler shutdown near Rice Rd after accident:
http://www.kltv.com/story/26271699/traffic-alert-old-bullard-rd-in-tyler-shutdown-near-rice-rd-after-accident