Oxnard-- The Public Works & Transportation Committee, during a Saturday, September 17 special meeting, approved the proposed Speed Hump Program in the City.
THE Speed Hump program is a traffic-calming tool to enhance pedestrian and diver safety, and reduce speeding and cut-through traffic on residential streets.
Public works Director Michael Wolfe presented the video to the public and said the City gets a significant number of traffic calming requests, 200 over a five-year period, and the program will help address this issue.
“The program will be a well-defined engineering approach to implement those requests if vetted out to enable a Speed Hump to be installed,” he said. “It will also establish priorities as we won’t be able to install all of them if requested.”
He noted that Speed Humps should only be implemented after all the other options are implemented.
“What Speed Humps shouldn’t be used for and can’t do is be placed on high-volume streets, such as arterials and collector streets,” he said. “It should be used in a set of three. A single Speed Hump actually, through research, doesn’t help in the situation. Speed Humps are usually installed in groups of three to be effective, and they…
