Transportation
BY DESTINE GIBSON & CONNOR PITTMAN
Lewisville City Council approves speed limit decrease along North Summit Avenue A new speed limit along North Summit Avenue will be enforced after Lewisville City Council approved an ordinance Nov. 6. What you need to know JUSTIN RD. the agenda item. Staff used the Federal Highway Administration USLIMITS2 Speed Limit Tool to determine the new speed limit for North Summit Avenue. 407
While 85th percentile speed is widely accepted, the highway administration’s tool is more detailed and takes several other factors into account, such as annual average daily traffic, roadway character- istics, crash and injury rates, presence of on-street parking, and level of development in the area, according to city staff. Also of note The original ordinance included the segment from FM 407 to Moccasin Trail. North Summit Avenue dead ends north of FM 407 and does not extend to Moccasin Trail. A new speed study will be conducted once the street is extended to Moccasin Trail.
The speed limit on North Summit Avenue between FM 407 and Grandys Lane will be reduced from 40 mph to 35 mph. The decrease was prompted by a recent change in the road’s geometry and reduced number of traveling lanes, according to the agenda item. North Summit Avenue was restriped to convert the outer lanes to on-street parking in August. Staff then conducted a new speed study and determined 35 mph to be the appropriate limit. Some context Past studies used 85th percentile speeds to determine appropriate speed limits, according to
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Asphalt work underway on roadway in Coppell A planned maintenance project to extend the life of a city roadway in Coppell is underway. Construction crews are currently adding an asphalt overlay—a process of adding additional asphalt over the road’s base layer—along South- western Boulevard between South Freeport Parkway and Coppell Road, according to a city project webpage. What you need to know Dallas County is performing the asphalt overlay,
which is expected to last until a planned recon- struction of Southwestern Boulevard in the future. The asphalt overlay is expected to be finished later this year, per the project webpage. The same segment of Southwestern Boulevard between South Freeport Parkway and Coppell Road is included in a future city reconstruction project estimated to begin in 2025. According to the city’s road project map, the reconstruction project is in the design phase.
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