Traffic Calming Committee Meeting — Minutes

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4:30 PM 
 
City of Smyrna 
Traffic Calming Committee Meeting 
2800 King Street SE 
Admin Conference Room 
 
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 B. 2026-242 Current Project Updates 
1. Safe Streets & Roads for All (SS4A) Action Plan Grant Application 
2. Spring Street 
3. Village Parkway 
4. Legion Drive 
5. Hawthorne Avenue Railroad Crossing 
6. Concord Road and Old Concord Road  
 
Safe Streets & Roads for All (SS4A) Grant  
• Federal grant program with $5 billion in appropriated funds over 5 years (2022 
– 2026) 
• Initiatives to prevent roadway fatalities and serious injuries 
• Guided by Safe System Approach 
• Improve safety culture 
o Increase collaboration across safety stakeholders 
o Refocus transportation system design and operation on anticipating 
human mistakes 
o Lessening impact forces 
o Improve crash response to reduce secondary crashes 
o Enhance survivability 
o Improve fatal and serious injury crash outcomes 
• Comprehensive Safety Action Plan 
o Plan for reducing and eliminating serious-injury and fatal crashes affecting 
all roadway users 
o Analysis of data to characterize roadway safety problems and address 
community’s most significant safety risks 
o Identifies projects for Implementation Grant applications 
• Applied for $300,000 
• 20% local match 
• Grant application submitted May 26 
• Receive funding within 12 months 
 
Traffic Calming 
Concord Road / Old Concord Road 
Looking at additional measures – chicanes or more center medians. This is still in the 
concept phase. 
  
Spring Street 
Looking at pedestrian crossings. Not all the neighbors are on board with speed humps.  
  
Village Parkway Traffic Calming 
Speeding is a major concern. Considering narrowing the lanes by about one foot. It would 
be similar to what has been done on Concord Road. They are about a month away from 
doing the striping project. If it goes over well, then they would bid out the work for the 
concrete medians. 
  
Legion Drive 
• Pedestrian Improvements 
o RRFB Crossing 
o Sidewalks connecting to Dunn Street 
• Traffic Calming 
o Speed Humps (2) 
o Signage