Neighborhood Traffic Management

The Neighborhood Traffic Management Program (NTMP) works with residents to address traffic concerns and improve safety on neighborhood streets.

Depending on the issue, staff can evaluate and recommend:

• Speed limit reductions
• Traffic calming projects (speed humps, traffic circles, curb extensions)
• Intersections safety improvements such as multiway stops, pedestrian islands, and otehr treatments
• Traffic and parking regulation concerns

When a concern is reported, staff collect and evaluate traffic data to determine the extent of the issue and identify solutions that best fit the street and surrounding neighborhood.

Report a Traffic Management Concern

To report a traffic management problem in your neighborhood or to request a traffic calming project, submit a Transportation Improvement Request form  through Ask Raleigh.
Select:

*What are you requesting?
Something New

*What new infrastructure are you requesting?
Traffic Calming

Progam Services

Speed Limit Reductions

The first strategy for improving quality of life along your neighborhood street is to reduce the speed limit.

Staff is proactively reviewing neighborhood streets and lowering speed limits to create more consistent speeds citywide. Residents may also request a speed limit evaluation for their street. Staff will review traffic volumes to determine whether the speed limit may be reduced to 30 mph or 25 mph.

• Streets with less than 4,000 vehicles per day will be lowered to 25 mph.
• Streets with greater than 4,000 vehicles per day will be lowered to 30 mph. 

Once reviewed and coordinated, the new speed limit will be posted along your street.

Click here to review speed limits currently being coordinated.

Intersection Safety Evealuaitons

NTMP evaluates whether treatments such as three-way and four-way stops, pedestrian islands, curb extensions, or neighborhood traffic circles may improve safety.
When performing our evaluation, staff will look at nationally recognized safety criteria to help determine if change to an intersection is appropriate.  Criteria we look at includes:

• Traffic volumes (cars, bikes, and pedestrians) entering the intersection on each approach;
• Crash history within the last 3 years at the intersection; and,
• Sight distance for each approach at the intersection.

After reviewing the data, staff will recommend any stop signs or other safety treatments that are determined to improve intersection safety.

Did You Know?
Although stop signs can improve intersection safety, they do not always reduce speeding along a street. Staff will evaluate each location and recommend the solution that best meets the needs of the area.

Maps and Tracking

NTMP Request Tracking Map

The map below displays NTMP requests from the past 12 months. While streets are only eligible for evaluation once every 12 months, you can use the map to view the status of current evaluations. Contact NTMP staff with any questions.

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