§ 49-30. Traffic Calming.

(a) The Director of Transportation must consider installing traffic calming and bicycle- and pedestrian-friendly design features in any residential street over 1,000 feet long, minor arterial, business district street, and industrial street. Traffic calming features include raised crosswalks and raised intersections, traffic circle, medians, pedestrian refuge islands, chokers, smaller centerline radii, parking cut-outs, and special paving and streetscaping in central business districts or other commercial areas.

(b) Speed humps that are 12 feet wide may be built on any principal secondary residential street, secondary residential street, tertiary residential street, or alley, but must be spaced at least 500 feet from any other hump and 200 feet from any intersection. Speed humps that are 22 feet wide may be built on any primary residential street, but must be spaced at least 500 feet from any other hump and 200 feet from any intersection. Speed humps that are 22 feet wide may be built on a minor arterial, but must be spaced at least 750 feet from any other hump and 300 feet from any intersection. Before speed humps are installed in any road, all other requirements specified in applicable regulations must be met. (, § 1; , § 1.)

Editor’s note—, § 3, states: Sec. 3. Any regulation in effect when this Act takes effect that implements a function transferred to another Department or Office under Section 1 of this Act continues in effect, but any reference in any regulation to the Department from which the function was transferred must be treated as referring to the Department to which the function is transferred. The transfer of a function under this Act does not affect any right of a party to any legal proceeding begun before this Act took effect.

Former Section 49-30 was renumbered Section 49-25 pursuant to 2007, ch. 8, § 1.