GREENSBORO, N.C. — North Carolina city engineers have launched a new traffic management program to help slow down speeding drivers in residential neighborhoods in Greensboro.

What You Need To Know

  • Greensboro Department of Transportation has began a new initiative Neighborhood Traffic Management Program
  • The new program will receive $500,000 from this year's upcoming budget, allowing the program to help neighbors living on two-lane roads with speed limits between 25-30 mph
  • The program partners with residents, neighborhood and homeowner associations to create tailored plans to reduce speeding
  • Application deadline is August 31

It’s a new initiative called the Neighborhood Traffic Management Program from the Greensboro Department of Transportation to keep neighborhood streets safer.

“We get tons of complaints about speeding in neighborhoods. Folks walking in their neighborhood, and they see folks zooming past. They want ways to, to control that to physically slow folks down,” said Chris Spencer, City of Greensboro engineering division manager.

The program partners with residents, neighborhood and homeowner associations to create tailored plans to reduce speeding.

“This program will give us some resources to actually implement things like, speed humps, raised crosswalks, chicanes or other types of treatments,” Spencer said.

The new program will receive $500,000 from this year's upcoming budget. This will allow the program to help neighbors living on two-lane roads with speed limits between 25-30 mph.

“Every street is going to be different. There'll be different treatments, depending on what concern we're trying to address. So, one project could be assignments of pavement markings. And if they were all like that, we'd be able to do a whole bunch. If we're talking about speed humps or a permanent type of infrastructure, then that money could get spent very quickly,” said David Ortega, City of Greensboro senior civil engineer.

Ortega said this project has been years in the making for this department, and getting funding has always been an issue because of the type of treatments they would be doing in the neighborhoods.

“I think a lot of folks, when they think about neighborhood calming, they think speed humps, but we wanted something bigger than that. We don't want to just have a speed program. And that's why we named it the Neighborhood Traffic Management Program, because what we're really looking at different types of infrastructure, both vertical and horizontal alignments,” Ortega said.

If you would like to have your street evaluated for safety concerns apply by August 31. They also plan to host program workshops that discuss the overview of the program and help assist with the application.