Ney Avenue Neighborhood Traffic Calming
- Project TypeTransportation
- Start DateMay 26, 2020
- Project StatusImplementation
- Completion DateDecember 31, 2025
Thank you for your participation in the Ney Avenue Neighborhood Traffic Calming Plan! Detailed design for traffic calming elements is now underway. Speed humps have been constructed on Ney, Outlook, and Hillmont. Our detailed design for traffic calming improvements has been delayed but continues to move forward with construction anticipated to be completed in December 2025.
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In May 2020, OakDOT partnered with area residents and the Parker Elementary School community to identify strategies to decrease traffic speeds, reduce cut-through traffic, and create a safer and more inviting environment for the Ney Avenue community. The study area is bounded by 73rd Avenue to the west, 82nd Avenue to the east, Hillmont Drive to the north, and MacArthur Boulevard to the south. Solutions include speed humps, curb extensions, and other physical changes to the street. The plan's recommendations include near-term improvements such as speed humps and longer-term improvements that the City can deliver with paving projects or grant funding.
OakDOT staff are now at work designing traffic calming improvements, and these will be phased in over time. The first element was to repair existing speed humps and build new ones, which was completed in 2022.
What traffic calming treatments can you expect?
OakDOT is working to deliver treatments identified in the traffic calming study that are the most effective at decreasing traffic speeds, reducing cut-through traffic, and creating a safer and more inviting environment for the community. Not all of the recommendations from the study will be implemented as they were presented “as is” without consideration given to neighborhood and site-specific context. For example, the proposed traffic circle at Ney/76th will not be included because the diagonal diverter installed at Ney/75th has significantly reduced the traffic volume on Ney; the proposed circle at Ney/Parker will not be included because the intersection’s limited dimensions prohibit installation; and the proposed pinch point on Ritchie, in concept and in the draft design, will not be included because of its potential adverse effect on school traffic.
What will be built by the committed timeline are:
- a permanent diagonal diverter at Ney/75th to replace the temporary water barriers.
- a reconstruction of the NW corner of Ney/Partridge, similar to what was constructed at Ney/Ritchie, to slow down right turns coming down on Partridge toward the school.
- a physical turn-restriction at MacArthur/76th, resulting in right-in/right-out only. Combined with the diagonal diverter at Ney/75th, this will further prevent cut through traffic attempting to avoid the 73rd/MacArthur intersection.
Please see conceptual plans below of each treatment.
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