HomeMy WebLinkAbout(2) REVISED SPEED LIMITSCITY OF PORT ARTHUR, TEXAS
PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT
MEMORANDUM:
TO: Steve Fitzgibbons, City Manager
FROM: Leslie E. McNahen, P.E., Director of Public Works"'~,-~-
DATE: May 7, 2002
SUB3ECT: Report on TxDOT's Revised Speed Limits Proposal on Highway
69/Memorial Boulevard - Aero Drive to Gulfway Drive
As a result of an on-site meeting with a representative of the TxDOT-Beaumont traffic
section, and our providing them with additional accident records within the above-described
limits, TxDOT has proposed a new set of si;ccd limits and boundaries. The new speed limits
are reduced from the ones presented in my October 31, 2001 report to the City Council, but
only within the 5 m.p.h, limit of authority of the TxDOT-Beaumont office.
! am attaching the following:
Exhibit 1 which shows the existing speed limits, TxDOT's October 2001 proposed
limits, and the speed limits proposed by me in my 10/31/01 report; and,
Exhibit 2 which shows the revised .speed limits and boundaries as proposed by
TxDOT in their April 19, 2002 letter to me, and which are supported by me.
If the City Council does not agree with the proposed speed limits and does not approve
such by ordinance, our only recourse to keeping the existing si;ccd limits or a slight
modification thereof is to ask the TxDOT-Beaumont office to submit our proposal and theirs
to the Texas Highway Commission for a decision. Unfortunately, a rational evaluation of
speed and accident data would reveal a similar proposal as put forth by TxDOT-Beaumont,
and we could not support a position of leaving the spccd limits as they are now set.
I suggest that we have this on the May 14, 2002 Council meeting as a report to get the
feeling of the Council as to how to proceed.