No Speed Measures in Springfield, For Now

For those of us that live on Springfield Dr. and Summerford Dr. we know, first hand, that speeding is a problem, especially by cut through traffic. And not by more than just a few miles an hour.

Our wonderful neighbor Candy Stirling took up the challenge of contacting the city of Dunwoody to see what could be done concerning traffic-calming devices. The city responded in an expeditious manner by stretching a speed/traffic-measuring hose across Summerford just north of the intersection with Springfield from March 29-March 31 (The city also measured two other areas of our neighborhood).

The results shows that while the average vehicle exceeds the speed limit, the margin was not enough to warrant either consideration for speed tables or stop signs (the chart below is the results from traffic measured on Thursday, March 31. Click on the chart to enlarge).

Nonetheless, a big thank you to Candy for this undertaking. Below is Candy's note to the neighborhood as we continue to look for ways to keep our children safe on our neighborhood streets.

Summerford Neighbors,

Well, everyone can stop holding their breath about the speed bump decision. I talked with the city yesterday and we do not qualify for speed bumps or stop signs. There are studies attached if you are interested in what the survey showed. To sum it up, we had an avg. speed of 30mph each day for 3 days. He agreed with me that this is fast in a residential area, but it does not meet the over 10 mph criteria. One fact I was shocked about, which makes our street seem so bad, was there were between 250-300 cars per day riding up and down Summerford. That is a lot of traffic. So, we have our answer. We will just have to continue with our yelling tactics to get the cars to slow down. Just keep watching your kiddos extra close! I hate to think what one accident could do and we have up to 300 chances per day. Thanks to everyone for helping out and supporting our neighborhood.

There is one thing that we can have done to deter speeding at no cost to us. We can contact the police dept. and get on the list to have the speeding trailer put in someone's yard. If we wanted to have this done a few times this summer I would be willing to contact them to set it up. There just has to be someone willing to park this in their yard or possibly in front of their house. It has to meet criteria for where it is put as far as distance and visibility goes, but much easier to my understanding to make happen. If we are interested I could go ahead and find out and get on the list. This does make me slow down when I pass one. I am up for anything that will help.

Lastly, I wanted to be sure everyone knew how easy the City of Dunwoody was to work with and get in contact with throughout this whole process. I was extremely happy with everything that was done and how personable they were.

Thanks everyone!!
Candy