2025 Neighborhood Traffic Safety Program

Welcome to the 2025 Neighborhood Traffic Safety Project Open House! The goal of the neighborhood traffic safety program is to promote safety on neighborhood streets for all roadway users including pedestrians, bikes, and cars. The program conducts speed studies, engineering evaluations, observations, and neighborhood outreach to identify areas for program activities. These activities include enforcement, education, and physical improvements as determined to be appropriate and within program resources. The program conducts an annual project each year that includes one or more neighborhood areas.

This year, in order to serve more neighborhoods and complete the project more quickly, we are focusing on three smaller areas.

In this Open House, you can learn about the data we collected and analyzed, how we take the data into account when making safety proposals, and the traffic safety proposals for each focus area.

For each of the three focus areas for 2025, the City collected and reviewed data on the streets within these areas. This data included:

• vehicle speeds
• daily average number of vehicles
• locations of past collisions, bus stops, grocery and convenience stores, schools, and parks
• if there is sidewalk along the streets
• if there is existing traffic calming measures on the streets, and
• if there has been public feedback in the past.

The image below shows the different data we analyze for each area.

When looking at speed data, the City looks at an entire area as a whole, rather than a single street. If we install traffic calming measures, such as speed cushions, on one street, speeding vehicles may just move to the next street over. Therefore, in an area where the data shows some speeding on one street, the City may consider also putting traffic calming measures on other streets in the area, even if those other streets do not currently show the same level of speeding.

The City may also look at the data and past public feedback for other ways to improve traffic safety in an area. Stop signs are generally not a good way to slow people down. At an intersection where there are concerns about vehicles stopping at stop signs or other safety concerns, the City may investigate if having a stop sign at that location is the best measure, or if traffic calming measures, such as speed cushions, are a better way to address those concerns.

While investigating an area, the City will also analyze intersections in the area to make sure there is proper intersection control. Based on this analysis, the City may determine that a stop sign needs to be installed due to such factors as sight distance.

The map below shows where the three different focus areas are in Auburn. Click on the blue location pin for a focus area, click "Read More", and then click "HERE" to see more information about that focus area, including the data we collected in that area and what traffic safety measures we are proposing.

To see other focus areas, you can continue to scroll down, return to this map, or click on the area name at the top of your screen.

To return to this map, click "Map - All Areas" at the top of your screen.

We want to hear from you! If you have any comments or questions about the Traffic Safety Program or our proposed traffic safety measures, please let us know by clicking on the below button and completing the short survey. You can also call us at 253-931-3010 or email  NTCP@auburnwa.gov .