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Traffic Committee

Current members of the committee are: Steve Neels, Mike Schmidt, and Judy Schwartz.

If you are interested in helping on this committee, please contact Steve Neels.

Our goals in establishing an active neighborhood association is to preserve the safety of our children, well being of our families, value of our homes, character of our neighbor and further improve the sense of community within Mile Post.

New developments must bear the pro-rata proportional costs to develop their access to Coal Creek Parkway on routes and in manners that create the least impact to existing neighborhoods.

• Existing development in 2000 had reasonable access to Coal Creek even with the poor state of 136^th both North and South.
• All current and future developments in the SE quadrant must bear the cost of future anticipated improvements on a reasonable and rational pro-rata share. That share may be a combination of SF lot size and dwelling units as is determined prudent by the City.
• The City shall make long range plans and cost projections to accomplish the above.
• Interior roads on new developments shall be arranged to direct and encourage traffic to utilize the new roads designed and improved for their developments and not overload existing roads neither designed or constructed to accommodate those increased flows. Force the shortest path to Coal Creek and discourage alternative routes that avoid Coal Creek and degrade other neighborhoods.
• Our primary concern is to discourage the connection of these future developments to SE 136^th south of 135^th such that the predominant flow would tend to travel north on 136^th or 135^th.
• Allow access to the school while keeping through traffic away from the roads adjacent to school property thus improving the safety of the children. Apollo is one example. What is Cougar Ridge like? Hazelwood is an example of busy streets by the school.
• Cause road disconnects that promote traffic toward Coal Creek while discouraging alternative routes through neighborhoods.
• Work toward the long term solution.
• Perhaps advising the city of the need for noise abatement along Coal Creek Parkway.
• etc.

In the case of the Mile Post neighborhood we have a beautiful well-planned neighborhood that has functioned as a dead end community for over 10 years with an average daily traffic count of 500??? VPD. It is unreasonable for the City to promote or allow development that may increase that traffic flow to double or triple.

The City of Newcastle tries to promote connectivity in their transportation planning and all developments are designed to allow for future development. These goals do not always align with our goals individually and as a neighborhood.

To see a letter from Shawna Wang concerning traffic counts and alternate roads, Click here (9k)

To see a reprint of the transit planning map that accompanied Terra Chapek's article from the March 8th 2002 Newcastle News, Click here (204k)

To see a map of the Mile Post neighborhood with lot numbers, Click here (146k)