Clintonville Area Commission

Clintonville Traffic Calming

Clintonville is a community actively seeking solutions to the traffic problems facing its residential streets. Traffic calming has been pursued by a variety of community groups within Clintonville, including the Clintonville Area Commission, as a solution to be used in combination with better speed and traffic regulation enforcement. The goal of traffic calming is to give control of the street traffic speed and flow to the people who live on the street.


What is traffic calming?
Traffic calming measures are street design or regulatory features that cause motorists to drive more slowly, and therefor with a greater degree of attentiveness. Alternatively, traffic calming measures may induce a driver to select another route for their travel.

Although not technically a CAC Task Force, the first step to initiating process is to contact your local CAC Commissioner. If you do not know who your Commissioner is, use the District Mapto locate your address and the corresponding Commissioner.


Typical Menu of Traffic Calming Devices:

1. Narrowing the Pavement:
Stripe lanes
Street parking
Rebuilding the street
Bulbout mid-block
Bulbout intersection

2. Deflecting the vehicle path:
Chicane
Modified intersections
Knockdown
Roundabout
Traffic circle

3. Sharing the pavement:
Centered mid-block yield point
Offset yield point
Intersection yield point
On street parking one side
On street parking both sides


Petition Process & Procedures:
Petitions containing signatures from sixty percent or more of the residents in the impacted area of a given street must be completed and forwarded to the Division of Traffic and Engineering. Contact City of Columbus Traffic Calming Engineer Steven Tweed for more information.

The concept of traffic calming includes the viewing of the traffic problems impacting a residential community in total rather than street by street. However, in the City of Columbus each street and area impacted has the right to the City for consideration of their street for traffic calming solutions.