Speed Management

Contacted Resident No Further Action - Close SR. Spoke with Hira over the phone and sent the following follow up email: """ Hello Hira, Thank you for taking the time to speak with me earlier this week regarding your concerns for vehicle speeds on Durango Pass. I'd like to provide some additional information as we discussed. Requests for speed mitigation devices, such as speed cushions, on residential streets are handled through our Speed Management Program. Through this program, speed study cycles are performed every six months starting in October and April, during which the City accepts up to 60 requests. Once a street has been accepted into a cycle, traffic data is collected and used, along with other inputs, to assign a score and rank it against all other streets with traffic data. Typically, the top 5-15 streets each year are selected for a robust traffic calming project based on available funding, staffing, and contract capacity. The street ranking list is cumulative, meaning a street will continue to be ranked in future cycles as new streets are added. You can learn more about the Speed Management Program and see the current rankings here: https://www.austintexas.gov/department/speed-management. Durango Pass has not yet been considered for the program, so I recommend please reach back out to Austin 3-1-1 on October 1st to request a speed study and consideration for traffic calming. A street only needs one request to be considered for the program and duplicate requests do not change a streets placement in the data-driven rankings. Durango Pass will also be placed in the Speed Management Program's queue for a rotating dynamic speed display device (DSDD) installation. A DSDD is a traffic calming device that measures the speed of approaching vehicles, typically with radar, and displays the measured speeds to drivers to encourage compliance with the speed limit. DSDDs are portable and intended to stay at one location for no more than six weeks. The devices are then deployed to the next location in the DSDD queue. There are numerous streets that are currently in the queue so it may take 6 - 12 months before devices can be deployed. Millrace Drive was previously considered for the Speed Management Program and has been selected for a traffic calming project which is currently under final design and set to begin construction likely later in 2024 or in 2025. Lastly, I've investigated the site plan for the Loyola Junction Apartments under construction along the US 183 frontage road between Loyola Lane and Purple Sage Drive. Access for the apartments will include a driveway onto the US 183 frontage road and one driveway onto Lazy Creek Road near Purple Sage Drive, but there will not be any driveways with access into the area of the neighborhood accessed by Durango Pass or Coolbrook Drive so we don't anticipate it will add thru traffic on Durango Pass or Coolbrook Drive and the inner Streets. Thank you again for speaking with me earlier this week and have a great weekend, """.