Jericho Traffic Calming Measure Stinks

   Jericho residents continue to explore traffic calming techniques to keep traffic speeds in scale with the rural community. 

Lane Narrowing reduces speeds and minimizes crashes on city streets by reducing the right-of-way and making drivers wary of traffic and adjacent users. 

Gateway treatments alert drivers that they are entering a slower area. This treatment may include signage, entry portals, speed tables, raised crossings, and curb extensions.

Recently a creative combination of lane narrowing and gateway treatment was implemented on Browns Trace as a temporary measure. Ideally, fog lines would be painted to create a wide bike strip and to narrow the auto-driving lane. Even better would be to create a transition to a narrower driving lane where the speed limit changes from 35 mph to 25 mph. This would create another visual reminder of the lower speed limit area drivers are entering. 

Temporary measure: The recent approach uses a dead skunk; short on white lines, but effective in alerting drivers they are in a slower speed area. Those adhering to 25 mph managed to get by unscathed. However, some of the folks driving fast could have fared better. They commented that this speed-calming technique stinks. The second time around these same folks uttered, that it stinks but it works as a traffic-calming technique. 

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Implementation of traffic calming measures [like painting fog lines with wide bike lanes] can reduce traffic speed, reduce motor-vehicle collisions, and improve safety for pedestrians and cyclists. These measures can also increase pedestrian and bicycling activity. Using paint to narrow travel lanes is less offensive than traffic citations as a mode of modifying driving behavior. 

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