- April 24, 2024
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Despite a recent uptick in speeding complaints from residents, the city of Palm Coast is not seriously considering the prospect of adding speed bumps, the city’s Project Coordinator Tyler Gibson said during a Flagler Community Traffic Safety Team meeting the morning of Tuesday, June 9.
During the Zoom meeting, hosted by Flagler School Board member and CTST Chairman Andy Dance, Sgt. Adam Biss said the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office “has been getting blasted” with numerous speeding complaints on residential streets.
Gibson noted that speed bumps would be “extravagantly expensive” to install and maintain. You would also have to install more than one for it to have an effect.
“People tend to speed to them, slam on the breaks and then speed away,” Gibson said. “You also get increased noise from that.”
In addition, the city has also conducted multiple speed studies and found no evidence more speeding is occurring. Gibson said he believes people are noticing speeders more because residents have been confined to their homes more due to pandemic.
“When you’re sitting in your driveway and you see a car go by at 30 mph, some people think it’s going a lot faster than it really is,” he said.
Some of the streets the Sheriff’s Office have received complaints about, according to Biss, are: Bird of Paradise, Rolling Sands and Florida Park Drive. Information obtained by the FCSO is also shared with the city, and vice versa.
Dance asked Gibson if the city is looking at any other options for traffic-calming. One option, Gibson noted, is making roads appear smaller.
“People typically tend to drive safer on a road that appears narrower,” he said.
However, city officials are waiting for traffic to normalize before any option is decided upon and implemented.
