Traffic Issues
Meadow Lane issues keep popping up. Meadow Lane is a winding street lined with houses that connects Evesham Rd. and Brick Rd.
I live in a separate portion of this development and see the traffic that goes through. The Inquirer has a story about it in today's paper:
Last June, township traffic engineer Dick Orth concluded that the humps were effective in reducing speed in their immediate vicinity, dropping it from an average of 34 m.p.h. to 16 m.p.h. But they were little, if any, help in reducing volume. They actually resulted in the average speed at the northern end increasing from 31 m.p.h. to 34 m.p.h., because motorists were "trying to make up for lost time," Orth's report said.
Orth recommended replacing the temporary speed humps with three permanent ones and moving one closer to the northern end of Meadow Lane. Other options include installing stop signs, extending curbs, and putting in different barriers such as raised median islands.
"Can we put devices on the road or in the road to slow people down? Yes, and we will," Township Manager Ed Sasdelli said. "But controlling the volume of traffic is a more complicated issue."
A third traffic study is now under way, and another report is expected by late December.
Sasdelli said the council is "responsible to make it as safe as possible, and that starts with the speed limit. We can accomplish that with traffic enforcement. But you can't have officers there 24 hours a day."
Mayor Gus Tamburro views the situation as "two distinct problems. For the people who live on Meadow Lane, it's speed. For people who live off Meadow Lane, it's volume." The solution will "require a combination of things."
The residents just want something done.
Speed humps are a limited solution because they control speed but not volume. people feel better if they are not sitting in traffic but are constantly moving, no matter what speed.
The major issue is Evesham Rd, within a half mile of the light, coming from Voorhees, you have three townships, two counties and a whole bunch of cars.
Being that Evesham Rd. is a county road, it's up to our duly elected Freeholders to come up with a solution. Widening Evesham Rd. so that cars making a right could proceed instead of waiting for the light would be a step.
A second solution would be to make a left turning lane onto the Marlton By-pass heading south. The jughandle was a bad idea from the beginning and a few minutes of watching would show that the left turn lane going north flows well while the jughandle makes for a nightmare.
Traffic is a major quality of life issue in town and this is by far the worst intersection in Evesham. I know that people have been dissuaded from buying in my development simply because of the traffic problem.
I live in a separate portion of this development and see the traffic that goes through. The Inquirer has a story about it in today's paper:
Last June, township traffic engineer Dick Orth concluded that the humps were effective in reducing speed in their immediate vicinity, dropping it from an average of 34 m.p.h. to 16 m.p.h. But they were little, if any, help in reducing volume. They actually resulted in the average speed at the northern end increasing from 31 m.p.h. to 34 m.p.h., because motorists were "trying to make up for lost time," Orth's report said.
Orth recommended replacing the temporary speed humps with three permanent ones and moving one closer to the northern end of Meadow Lane. Other options include installing stop signs, extending curbs, and putting in different barriers such as raised median islands.
"Can we put devices on the road or in the road to slow people down? Yes, and we will," Township Manager Ed Sasdelli said. "But controlling the volume of traffic is a more complicated issue."
A third traffic study is now under way, and another report is expected by late December.
Sasdelli said the council is "responsible to make it as safe as possible, and that starts with the speed limit. We can accomplish that with traffic enforcement. But you can't have officers there 24 hours a day."
Mayor Gus Tamburro views the situation as "two distinct problems. For the people who live on Meadow Lane, it's speed. For people who live off Meadow Lane, it's volume." The solution will "require a combination of things."
The residents just want something done.
Speed humps are a limited solution because they control speed but not volume. people feel better if they are not sitting in traffic but are constantly moving, no matter what speed.
The major issue is Evesham Rd, within a half mile of the light, coming from Voorhees, you have three townships, two counties and a whole bunch of cars.
Being that Evesham Rd. is a county road, it's up to our duly elected Freeholders to come up with a solution. Widening Evesham Rd. so that cars making a right could proceed instead of waiting for the light would be a step.
A second solution would be to make a left turning lane onto the Marlton By-pass heading south. The jughandle was a bad idea from the beginning and a few minutes of watching would show that the left turn lane going north flows well while the jughandle makes for a nightmare.
Traffic is a major quality of life issue in town and this is by far the worst intersection in Evesham. I know that people have been dissuaded from buying in my development simply because of the traffic problem.
posted by Scott at 7:17 AM
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