Formal Appeal to the City's Traffic Calming Department (archived content)

Request made to help slow & control MoPAC cut-through traffic

The BrykerWoods Neighborhood Association has formally requested to be evaluated for a potential traffic-calming project. Our neighborhood was a final candidate last year in the city’s list of neighborhoods eligible for traffic calming initiatives; BrykerWoods finished 2nd place (right behind the CherryWood neighborhood).

The BrykerWoods neighborhood continues to be hammered with cut-through traffic, with most of the traffic stemming from MOPAC. And when the neighborhood streets are not packed with rush hour traffic, the cut-through traffic frequently travels at high rates of speed directly through the heart of the neighborhood. The BrykerWoods neighborhood is also quite concerned about the additional loads (and speeds!) of cut-through traffic accessing MOPAC on the neighborhood streets resulting from the University Neighborhood Overlay development plan.

Read the letter [PFD 76k] sent to the City of Austin's Traffic Calming Department and click here to learn more about BrykerWood's traffic problems.