Review Revised Design: Anderson Drive
Review Revised Design: Anderson Drive
Welcome back! We have heard feedback from your neighborhood on the proposed safety improvement to Anderson Drive. We are excited to share the revised design. All feedback was taken into consideration while also using best practices to make sure we provide the safest option for your neighborhood. Please review the final design by 5 PM on October 16.
Why this project?
The City has identified Anderson Drive for a traffic calming project, which will improve safety for those driving, walking, and biking in your neighborhood. Our goal is safer streets for all! Your street was identified because:
- Typical driving speeds are 39 MPH (Speed limit is 30 MPH).
We have already shared education materials with neighbors and had one open comment period on proposed safety improvement.
Design
City staff are recommending speed cushions to slow speeding on Anderson Drive. These devices would be placed every 500 feet along Anderson Drive from Six Forks Road to White Oak Road.
Below is a summary of the feedback gathered when the neighborhood was asked to react to the proposed design.
Shared Community Comments
- Speeding and dangerous driving
- Children walking to school and unsafe pedestrian conditions
Need for sidewalks along Anderson Drive
Concerns about Emergency Vehicle Delays
Turn lane loss at Oxford Road
Frequent crashes and near misses
What We Heard from the Community
- Install speed cushions?
- With feedback from the neighborhood, Speed cushions were selected to not impact emergency services, while still encouraging appropriate speeds
- Add sidewalks along Anderson Drive to provide safe space for pedestrians?
- Sidewalks are outside the scope of traffic calming projects. Traffic calming projects are focused on addressing identified speeding and safety concerns by encouraging safer travel speeds and supporting the City's Vision Zero initiative, which seeks to reduce and ultimately eliminate traffic-related fatalities and serious injuries.
Sidewalk requests can be submitted to activemobility@raleighnc.gov and will be evaluated separately from the traffic calming process.
- Introduce additional stop signs?
- Staff will review the locations mentioned during Phase 1 and determine whether additional intersection improvements are appropriate. Stop signs are evaluated based on established traffic control criteria focused on intersection improvements and are not to be used as to resolve speed compliance issues.
- Retain or modify the Oxford Road turn lane?
- Based on neighborhood feedback, the pedestrian refuge has been removed and the existing turn lane has been maintained. Staff will also review other potential improvements to address the stop-compliance concerns raised during the engagement process.
- Increase police enforcement or utilize speed‑monitoring cameras?
- Police enforcement on all residential streets cannot provide continuous coverage due to the staffing resources required. Traffic calming projects provide a permanent, 24/7 physical treatment intended to encourage neighborhood appropriate travel speeds, including in areas near schools where vulnerable users may be present.
- Remove the pedestrian refuge?
- Based on feedback received during the Phase 1 comment period, the proposed pedestrian refuge has been removed from the design.
This map shows the chosen locations of the devices. You can also view a larger PDF of this map.
Purple font will signify plan alterations
