Cary received citizen-initiated applications for traffic calming along Park Village Drive.  This corridor connects several neighborhoods to Davis Drive to the east and Jenks Carpenter Road to the west.  A concept design is currently being developed that will moderate vehicle speeds and support alternate modes of travel while still supporting the vehicle traffic and emergency access commensurate with a Collector Avenue.  The design is intended to be implemented in conjunction with a future year's Streets Maintenance Program (resurfacing).

More information on Cary's Streets Maintenance Program can be found at www.carync.gov/resurfacing

Cary has responded to traffic safety concerns from community members by evaluating Park Village Drive for traffic calming.  This evaluation, presented and discussed in the Traffic Data Summary posted to the Documents section below, resulted in an initial recommendation by staff for traffic calming. 

As a Collector Avenue, access to Park Village Drive is limited to local street intersections and no direct residential driveway connections exist.  This helps to reinforce the roadway context as a higher order facility (as compared to a local street) that supports connectivity, emergency vehicle access and helps relieve congestion on larger thoroughfares such as Davis Drive.  As such, some traffic calming devices like speed humps may not be an appropriate solution to moderate vehicle speeds.  

Cary staff are developing concepts that can be implemented in support of the existing traffic calming devices (landscaped medians) that are intended to reduce vehicle speeds while still maintaining appropriate access.  As these concepts likely will include adjustments to roadway striping, the implementation of this work is planned to occur in collaboration with Cary's Street Maintenance Program.  Park Village Drive is anticipated to be selected for resurfacing in one of the coming years so staff will be aligning the development of a corridor traffic calming concept with that effort. 

Upon completion, the concept design for this corridor will be available for review and input from all interested citizens.  Project updates will be posted here as they become available and all are encouraged to provide input directly using the email link below. 

Cary staff are happy to meet directly with community representatives as we move through this process.

Cary Project Manager: Adam Pilarz, P.E., PTOE

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