For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
EXCESSIVE CUT-THROUGH TRAFFIC. An excessive cut-through traffic problem exists when more than 30% of the traffic in any given hour during the day uses the street as a through street. Cut-through traffic is traffic not originating in or destined to the immediate neighborhood.
EXCESSIVE TRAFFIC VOLUME. A disproportionately high volume of traffic that promotes excessive speed, unsafe driving behavior and diminished livability on a neighborhood street.
SPEED HUMP. A traffic calming measure installed in accordance with design criteria for speed humps contained in the Traffic Calming Handbook.
SPEEDING. A speeding problem exists when the eighty-fifth percentile speed on the affected street(s) is in excess of ten mph over the posted speed limit for at least a period of 24 hours or another appropriate time determined by the township in accordance with the Traffic Calming Handbook.
TRAFFIC CALMING HANDBOOK. Pennsylvania’s Traffic Calming Handbook, Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, Publication No. 383, as the same may be from time to time revised.
TRAFFIC CALMING MEASURES. Strategic measures to improve the safety and livability of neighborhood streets by reducing vehicle speed, excessive traffic volume and cut-through traffic on neighborhood streets, and by addressing other safety-related neighborhood traffic concerns.
(Ord. 169, passed 11-12-2013)