Broyhill Crest residents propose ‘traffic calming’ measures for Wayne Drive
Thanks to all the speeders tearing up and down Wayne Road (pictured), some residents of the Broyhill Crest neighborhood are asking the county to install speed humps. Other main access roads to the neighborhood from Gallows Road—Oliver Avenue and Valleycrest Boulevard—could be affected, too.
The Broyhill Crest Community Association (BCCA) has approved a request by community resident Brad Parker to pursue measures to curb speeding on these streets. BCCA President Keith Taggart sent a letter to Fairfax County Supervisor Penny Gross seeking a review of these streets for inclusion in the county’s “traffic calming program.” If the streets qualify, the BCCA will form a community task force to explore various options for “traffic control devices.”
According to the Fairfax County Department of Transportation’s Residential Transportation Administration Program, these devices include speed humps, speed tables, raised pedestrian crosswalks, traffic circles, and median islands. To qualify, a street must have 600 to 4,000 vehicles a day. The department would conduct a traffic count and speed survey to determine of the street qualifies. Those studies are only done in the spring and fall when school is in session. If the county and the Virginia Department of Transportation approve the plan, community residents would have a chance to vote on it.
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This is a familar topic over here at Lake Barcroft. You might be interested in seeing some of our Taskforce's meeting notes on the Lake Barcroft Website — http://www.lakebarcroft.org/community/traffic.html
Best, Jill
Hopefully they will also look at radarsigns which are devices that display the drivers speed and also record data. They are very popular as an alternative to speed bumps, and results show they work.
I'm not sure the entire Wayne Drive community is behind this — which comes as a big surprise (Thanks Ellie for letting us know)
Not to jump the gun here, but I, for one, do not want a speed hump by my driveway and I suspect many others on the street may feel the same.
I would like to add some important detail to the post.
Yes there is a very real speeding problem on Wayne Drive, Oliver Avenue, and Valleycrest Boulevard as verified by many residents who attended a BCCA (Brohyhill Crest Community Association) Board Meeting on 17 November to discuss the issue.
The request mentioned in the post was approved by the BCCA Board and was from me as President of BCCA to Supervisor Gross to begin a long and carefully laid out process (see the link to the RTAP program in the post) to see if traffic calming devices make sense on these three streets. We have also requested a Police study to see what awareness / enforcement techniques (such as the electronic speed sign) might work in the short term but the Police inform us that these will not be a long term solution to the speeding problem.
The community is very concerned that when the new Lacey Elementary School opens in the fall of 2012 that a large number of children will be walking these three streets to attend. This will exacerbate the existing problem of mixing speeding cars with small children. If traffic calming devices turn out not to be doable, then we will seek other long term solutions to the problem through the RTAP program.
The BCCA has been working very closely with Supervisor Gross' Office on these and other issues to ensure that Brohill Crest stays the attractive, safe Community that it is currently.
Respectfully posted
Keith Taggart
BCCA President