City Wants Community Help To Make Streets Traffic-Friendly

EL PASO, TX. – Speeding, traffic congestion, running stop signs and red lights. They’re all dangerous traffic problems, but can be even more so in a neighborhood with lots of children.

Now there’s a wayresidents can help keeptheir communities safe. Many complain about traffic speeding through their neighborhoods and feel like nothing is ever done to protect the people that live there.

But it can be hard for authorities to pinpoint all the problem areas throughout our region. That’s why a new program givesresidents the power. The city of El Paso Neighborhood Traffic Management Program –NTMP — is operated by the city’s Department of Engineering. Its goal is to protect the environment and the quality of life in El Paso’s neighborhoods through control of traffic.

The city has hired a team of national experts in neighborhood traffic management to lead the planning process for the NTMP. Those experts will bring the best national practices of traffic management and will customize them for El Paso based onneighborhood residents’input and El Paso’s unique environmental, cultural & political factors.

During the meetingresidents would participate in workshops identifying the streets in their respective neighborhoods with traffic issues. Then they can grade the kind of traffic calming techniquesthey would like to see used to fix the problem.

Theinput will then be used by the consultants and city staff to improve the NTMP.Interested residentscan attend a number ofmeetings scheduled for next week. For a complete schedule, visit the City’s website link found in our ABC-7 Links section here on KVIA.com

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Written for broadcast by Rick Cabrera

Edited for KVIA.com by Miguel Martinez