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@Rich: I too lived through a number of "traffic quieting" projects in Atlanta and Decatur. The one I was most involved with was in a Dunwoody neighborhood where the desire of a number of vocal residents was to essentially turn a grid neighborhood into a cul-de-sac, allowing entrance/exit from only one of the two major streets it lay between (North Peachtree Road and Tilly Mill Road). There were lots of supposed issues like speeding and cut-through traffic and talk of barricades on Tilly Mill.

A crackdown on speeding and rolling through stop signs by DeKalb police yielded an interesting finding: most citations were given to neighborhood residents. The final solution, and I'll take some credit for it, consisted of a minimalist approach: No Left Turn 7AM to 9AM from northbound Tilly Mill onto the neighborhood streets. Traffic complaints dropped way down and the only people who were unhappy were the ones who really wanted to live in a gated community.

by ksu499 on Sep 30, 2009 9:00 am • link • report

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