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0 <br />0 <br />TO: Bob Herrera City Manager - <br />From: Charles E. Smith Chief of Police <br />Subject: Speed reduction on Fairmont Parkway <br />Date: January 22, 1988 <br />Sir: <br />I am recommending reduction of the speed limit on Fairmont <br />-, parkway from 55 miles per hour to 50 miles per hour. This reduction <br />is to affect a section along Fairmont Parkway, from a point 2400 feet <br />east of Bay area Blvd. to Luella Blvd, a distance of 22,800 feet <br />(4.318 miles). <br />The present 55 miles per hour speed limit, produces an average <br />speed of 60 miles per hour. Reducing that speed limit to 50, should <br />produce an average speed of 55. An in house study of departmental <br />statistics, revealed that 48 major accidents had occurred along this <br />section during 1987. (33) thirty-three accidents occurred at <br />intersections, (3) three of those are controlled by electric traffic <br />signals, (6)six are not. (8) Eight major accidents occurred in a <br />non -intersection area (specifically the 10,000 block). Speed is a <br />major contributing factor to these accidents. At the stop sign <br />controlled intersections, the wide open space has no reference points <br />for drivers waiting to enter or cross the traffic pattern. This <br />situation produces an optical illusion. It gives cross traffic the <br />impression, that through traffic is moving slower than it appears. <br />The result is a failure to yield right of way. <br />