Comments on: Eyes on the Street: A Guerrilla Message to DOT http://www.streetsblog.org/2009/02/13/eyes-on-the-street-a-guerrilla-message-to-dot/ Covering the New York City Streets Renaissance Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:07:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: fdr http://www.streetsblog.org/2009/02/13/eyes-on-the-street-a-guerrilla-message-to-dot/comment-page-1/#comment-63121 fdr Sat, 14 Feb 2009 00:37:45 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/?p=5463#comment-63121 DOT uses the criteria in the Federal Highway Administration’s Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, which is at http://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov. DOT uses the criteria in the Federal Highway Administration’s Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, which is at http://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov.

]]> By: Jeffrey Hymen http://www.streetsblog.org/2009/02/13/eyes-on-the-street-a-guerrilla-message-to-dot/comment-page-1/#comment-63115 Jeffrey Hymen Fri, 13 Feb 2009 22:11:08 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/?p=5463#comment-63115 Peter, the bureaucratic answer to your question is, DOT has engineering standards by which they evaluate whether or not an intervention is "warranted." In fact, the agency calls their analyses "warrant studies." For example, in order to get a speed hump installed, there needs to be more than a certain volume of traffic, traveling above a certain speed, but it cannot be a truck or bus route. (There may be more.) If a street doesn't meet the official criteria, it doesn't matter if lots of people are clamoring for a speed hump. And yes, I understand that you are coming from a completely different paradigm, but the way you phrased your post made me think I would explain the paradigm currently in operation at DOT. Peter, the bureaucratic answer to your question is, DOT has engineering standards by which they evaluate whether or not an intervention is “warranted.” In fact, the agency calls their analyses “warrant studies.”

For example, in order to get a speed hump installed, there needs to be more than a certain volume of traffic, traveling above a certain speed, but it cannot be a truck or bus route. (There may be more.) If a street doesn’t meet the official criteria, it doesn’t matter if lots of people are clamoring for a speed hump.

And yes, I understand that you are coming from a completely different paradigm, but the way you phrased your post made me think I would explain the paradigm currently in operation at DOT.

]]> By: Peter http://www.streetsblog.org/2009/02/13/eyes-on-the-street-a-guerrilla-message-to-dot/comment-page-1/#comment-63114 Peter Fri, 13 Feb 2009 21:26:56 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/?p=5463#comment-63114 this reminds me of a case out here in SF. a city official told me that they get 'thousands' of requests for stop signs from citizens every year - maybe more. it made me think, 'well why the **** don't you put some in then?!' there's a huge groundswell of support for livable streets -- it just hasn't been organized yet. this reminds me of a case out here in SF. a city official told me that they get ‘thousands’ of requests for stop signs from citizens every year – maybe more. it made me think, ‘well why the **** don’t you put some in then?!’

there’s a huge groundswell of support for livable streets — it just hasn’t been organized yet.

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