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I've read all the comments on speeding cars on Park St. yet nothing is done about it. The Mayor's Action Center simply forwards to Transportation or the Sherriff. We need TRAFFIC CALMING, cross walks, stop lights, etc. People on the West side of Park St. cannot cross the street without fearing for their lives. This morning a duck was in the road causing a 3 car accident. People drive way too fast on this road. It cuts through a residential neighborhood. We need more than reporting to the Sheriff. The police speed down Park St. themselves, so I'd say this is not working. There should be a pedestrian cross walk at 30th Ave N so folks can cross Park St. safely and go to and from Walter Fuller Park. When can we expect to see some changes? There have been numerous complaints about this and nothing is ever done!
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Michael Frederick, Mgr Transportation (Registered User)
Thank you for contacting the Transportation Deparment with your traffic safety concerns along Park Street.
The Police department periodically monitors speeds along all major roadways including Park Street on a recurring basis. Excessive speeds are an issue everywhere and they do their best to enforce the posted speed limits with the limited resources they have. Areas with a serious crash history and dangerous traffic patterns will get more of their attention than others without a history or pattern. Luckily, Park Street does not have a history of or a severe pattern of crashes.
Park Street is classified in the City's Comprehensive Plan as a Minor Arterial - County Roadway, which means it is intended to carry heavier vehicle volumes of traffic to and from Arterial Roadways (Central and Tyrone). In addition it is an Evacuation Route and a corridor frequently used by emergency service vehicles (Fire, Police, and Ambulance). Based on this classification and use it is designed much differently than a residential roadway. This is there are no medians, which would reduce its carrying capacity and level of service below acceptable limits.
Well we all would like to see our roadway corridors operate safely, they all cannot be designed to reflect unrestricted access for all roadway users. This means that pedestrians using major roadways are intended to cross at protected locations where typically traffic signals are located and motorists would expect to interact safely. The mid-block areas you have indicated for adding additional crosswalks would first of all require by standard a median, which would not only block emergency services but some driveways. Therefore we cannot consider this type of traffic control for this classification of roadway.
With that said, we are also going to be embarking on a complete streets implementation plan this summer (copy attached). There will be a well-publicized public involvement process for the plan and I hope you will be able to participate. Our plan may change existing design criteria and should bring in additional funding in the future. We already do have more funds programmed in 2017 if the budget passes ($3/4million) for complete streets and sidewalk expansion than what we have in this year’s budget. So we may be able to eventually accommodate a complete street design into this area that will meet the needs of all roadway users.
I trust this helps explain the factors that we must consider when evaluating requests for modifying a roadway design and we look forward to working with the community to develop our complete street implementation procedures in the near future.
BDuty (Registered User)
Michael Frederick, Mgr Transportation (Registered User)
UPDATE: Transportation Department staff recently updated our speed studies on Park Street in response to a Neighborhood Associations' request. We determined that the 24-hour average operating speed was 48.47 MPH and therefore sent the results to the Police with another request to monitor and enforcement.
We also have been working with the Neighborhood Association and County to approve a new pedestrian crosswalk, with flashing beacons and a mountable center median at 28th Avenue N, which has sidewalks on both sides of the road leading into Walter Fuller Park and the new crosswalk recently installed on 28th Street. We are currently waiting for our contractor to schedule the roadway modification necessary to facilitate installation of the crosswalk. While we don't have his schedule yet we are assuming it will take place within a few weeks, not months.
Michael Frederick, Mgr Transportation (Registered User)
Michael Frederick, Mgr Transportation (Registered User)
An anonymous SeeClickFix user (Registered User)
Is this new crosswalk at Park St? Park St is dangerous. It's not safe to even walk on the sidewalk with all the accidents around the 7-11.
Re speeding cars - good news! The police are some of the worst offenders on Park St. Hopefully the PD realizes their staff speed as well.
Mary Scott (Registered User)
BDuty (Registered User)
Closed SPTO Admin 7 (Verified Official)
Thank you for your past submission via SeeClickFix. The City of St Petersburg periodically reviews past reports that are made from citizens within our city limits, and in an effort to clean-up old issues that were resolved some time ago, we are marking as 'closed' those issues that were submitted in the past for which the work has been completed or the issue has otherwise been resolved.
If you think for any reason that the issue you submitted in the past might still be unresolved, please feel free to submit a new report with the SeeClickFix St. Pete website and we will make sure the issue is directed to the appropriate City department to be addressed as soon as possible.
Thank you again - Sincerely,
Mayor's Action Center