How Lexington's Neighborhood Traffic Management Program actually works

In Tuesday, February 11th's Environmental Quality and Public Works (EQPW) Committee, Traffic Engineer Manager Roger Mulvaney will present an overview of the Neighborhood Traffic Management Program (NTMP).

The NTMP was created in 2000 to implement traffic calming measures such as speed tables, pedestrian crosswalks, on-street parking, and more on local and residential streets. Neighborhoods concerned about high traffic speeds on a local street can bring those concerns to the Division of Traffic Engineering, which will conduct a study on the street to determine how dangerous traffic speeds are on that street.

From that study (and other potential future studies), Traffic Engineering implements one of three types of solutions:

• A Basic Intervention: This type of solution is intended to reinforce rules for that street that already exist. This could mean adding additional speed limit signs, repainting road stripes that have faded and led to haphazard driving, or other measures that do not fundamentally change the street.
• A Type 1 Intervention: This type of solution changes the rules of the street without changing the design of the street. This can include lowering the speed limit or adding a stop sign.
• A Type 2 Intervention: This type of solution changes the design of the street. These can include a reduction of the street’s width, a speed bump or speed table, a curb extension, or other physical changes. These solutions are usually funded in part by the City and by the local neighborhood association.