Speeding around this area has been reported quite often around this area. Is anything being done, or talked about?

Daily cars are speeding on this street! Hourly!!!

Speed bumps? Is that a thing in a neighborhood?

The speeding in this neighborhood is absolutely out of control. I consistently see cars going 10-20 MPH over the speed limit between 17th and 27th & Washington. I've seen several near accidents and have almost been hit twice in the past month.

Thank you for contacting LPD regarding the speeding, noise, and other negligent driving violations in your area of Southeast/Southwest Lincoln. We want to assure you that we realize and understand your concerns. These teams, when staffing allows, along with the Traffic Enforcement Unit, are proactively patrolling daily in the areas we recognize as having the highest potential for the exhibition of speed and noise and taking the appropriate action when violations are observed by our officers. There are a few times each year when grant funding through the State of Nebraska allows these teams to enlist extra patrols to combat this problem. We will continue to seek out these funds in an effort to minimize noise and enhance safety in the area. In addition, I'm assigning this complaint to Lincoln Transportation and Utilities Engineering & Traffic Division, to consider stop signs in the area and also discuss speed bumps/humps in residential neighborhoods. /1178

I guess we are going to have to accept the fact that the area previously mentioned in posts is going to become a a speedway. Washington Street from 17 to 27th has gotten worse reference speeding and people running the stop sign at 27th and Washington. Also the motorcycles speeding on 27th continues. I am getting tired of Officer Mayer-Adams canned response to these complaints. I bet these traffic issues would not be tolerated along Sheridan Blvd and Wilderness Ridge Neighborhoods.

We’ve got to do something to slow the traffic or someone is going to get seriously hurt. I know of numerous accidents that have happened at Garfield and at Everett.

Zephyr, as a matter of fact, these incidents occur in nearly every area of Lincoln and as the complaints come in to LPD - either directly to the team or via UPLNK, we respond to them. I'm sorry if you feel the response is "canned". I'm doing my best to remain professional and occasionally, that comes off as stuffy. My apologies. These cases are difficult to track. It takes an officer to on-view the speeding/exhibition of acceleration/racing/noise complaints and that officer has to make a split-second decision on whether to try to stop the vehicle or not, based upon the potential of putting others in harms way. In the previous complaints that I've forwarded to the teams and Traffic Enforcement Unit, safety for other drivers and pedestrians is cited as a reason for enforcement to be in the area. The last thing we want to do is further place innocent citizens in harm's way. We're limited in staffing. The Traffic Enforcement Unit is comprised of a Sergeant and eight officers, with their main job duty of enforcing traffic laws throughout the city of Lincoln. For every traffic complaint you may see here on UPLNK, there's a strong chance the Traffic Unit is receiving at least 5 more complaints for similar enforcement requests elsewhere in the city. Our uniformed teams are stretched as well. We feel that organizing a traffic selective as soon as we are able to get officers to the numerous locations we're requested is the most feasible way to handle these issues. We realize it would be impossible to wait until someone calls about a speeding vehicle in a particular area, as the offender would be gone by the time the officer arrives. A traffic selective, though not ideal, is really the only option at this point. Thank you. /1178

J J Mayer-Adams: Thank you for your long explanation, I have lived in this neighborhood for over 30 years, the speeding has got worse the last two years than I have ever seen it. I am retired after 37 years of public service in Emergency Medical Services. I know the challenges of dealing with the public. I am telling you there is a real problem here day and night. You and your department are the authority trained to assist us citizens in addressing the problem.

J J Mayer-Adams: I have a suggestion to address the traffic issue in Lincoln. The Lincoln Police Department may need to evaluate its priorities. Maybe more plainclothes officers need to be put back on the street in uniform to address traffic. You being a professional law enforcement officer know statistics show that more crimes are solved due to traffic stops. Also traffic related injury accidents decline when there is stricter traffic enforcement. Matter of fact your department has claimed in the past about how traffic accidents and injuries declined when you justified utilizing Federal Highway Safety money to provide more traffic enforcement. I sit through many meetings listening to former Chief and Public Safety Administer Tom Cassidy talk about how effective your department used the money to do traffic stops and how many crimes were solved and lives saved thanks to those stops.

How do I request that speed radar trailer thing?

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This concern has been given to Traffic Staff to Review.

The City of Lincoln has adopted the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD). It provides guidance as to where and when intersection control should be installed. It establishes a minimum crash threshold. The MUTCD directs that Yield and Stop signs should not be used for speed control. The reason for this is the negative effects that occur when intersection control is installed. For example, when intersection control is installed (Yield or Stop), it is installed on the street that carries the least volume of traffic (referred to as the “side street”). This changes driver behavior on the “main street”, as drivers on the main street develop a sense of confidence that the side street traffic will always stop for them. This results in higher speeds on the main street. An unwanted effect of this increased speed is that crash severity, as well as, fatality rates for pedestrians who are involved in a vehicle/ pedestrian crash also increase. For this reason, crash data and sight triangles must first justify the need for intersection control before control can be installed. A review of crash data shows there have been two reported crashes at the intersections of S 26th St and Garfield St in the last fifteen years. This is remarkable and well below the average crash rate for this type of intersection. For this reason, intersection control will not be installed at this time.

If your neighborhood is interested in traffic calming devices such as speed humps, information about the City’s Neighborhood Traffic Mitigation Program can be found here: https://lincoln.ne.gov/city/ltu/engine/traffic/pdf/neighborhood-traffic.pdf
The process starts when we receive a request from the neighborhood representative which is typically a HOA president or similar, although this position can be anyone that wants to take the lead role on behalf of the neighborhood. We will then collect speed and volume data and complete a report. Please note the last sentence of Step 1, where the neighborhood is responsible to fund any improvements. With limited resources, we ask that there is commitment from the neighborhood regarding the willingness to at least consider funding improvements that can be $10,000-20,000 or more.