(Collector) Walnut Street to Bloomingdale Drive

Cary received a citizen-initiated application for traffic calming along Kingston Ridge Road. This street serves as the primary corridor connecting the Hillsdale Forest community to Walnut Street so staff have developed a concept that will reinforce the residential context of this community while still supporting the vehicle traffic and emergency access commensurate with a Collector Street.

Cary has responded to traffic safety concerns from community members by evaluating Kingston Ridge Road for traffic calming. This evaluation, presented and discussed in the Traffic Data Summary posted to the Supporting Documents section, resulted in an initial recommendation by staff for traffic calming.

Staff have developed this into a Concept Design to exhibit Cary's suggestions for traffic calming (speed humps) along this corridor and to facilitate discussions with affected citizens. To-date, this design has been reviewed by Cary's Traffic Calming Safety Committee to ensure that impacts to access and emergency services are minimized and acceptable.

As the most critical aspect of a successful traffic calming project, community support is necessary for this project to proceed. A survey was developed to help staff better quantify this support and to tailor the design to the community needs. The results and responses to comments received through that process are available in the Supporting Documents section.

Citizens are encouraged to provide any additional feedback by emailing the Cary Project Manager directly using the link below.

Based on the support demonstrated, this project is planned to proceed with bidding and construction as soon as feasible, pending funding availability. Project updates will be posted here as they become available.

Cary staff are happy to meet directly with community representatives as we move through this process.